Adapted from writings by artists and critics appearing in magazines, catalogs, and other recent publications, The Auratic Narrative was conceived by Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda as a framing device for their exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in 2019. The text-as-artwork offers a dramatic account of an unnamed artist’s ambivalence toward their professional milieu. […]
The water glass series accommodates the dual pursuits of health and hedonism that characterizes contemporary culture. Each glass serves one addiction: The Dispensary, The Fountain, The Exhaust, and The Reservoir. The Vice/Virtue glasses were produced in 1997 for the exhibition Glassmanifest, in Leerdam, Netherlands.