Fridman gallery presents Strange Beach, an exhibition featuring the work of Arghavan Khosravi, Nate Lewis, and Tajh Rust. Each artist uses the human figure to highlight tensions and vulnerabilities symptomatic of our times.
Strange Beach is a metaphor for the body—as a surface that exhibits and retains memories and social biases, as a unique algorithm that constructs behaviors on behalf of the self. Claudia Rankine, in her Citizen: An American Lyric, described the body as “the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through…”
