“Teen Paranormal Romance” at The Renaissance Society
Artists: Kathryn Andrews, Ed Atkins, Chris Bradley, Roe Ethridge, Guyton\Walker, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Anna K.E., Jack Lavender
Venue: The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Exhibition Title: Teen Paranormal Romance
Curated by: Hamza Walker
Date: March 9 – April 14, 2014
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images:
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- Guyton\Walker
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- Anna K.E.
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- Anna K.E.
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- Anna K.E.
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- Kathryn Andrews
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- Jack Lavender
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- Jack Lavender
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- Jack Lavender
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- Chris Bradley
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- Chris Bradley
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- Ed Atkins
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- Ed Atkins
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- Ed Atkins
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- Ed Atkins
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- Ed Atkins
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- Ed Atkins
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- Ed Atkins
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- Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen
Images courtesy of The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Press Release:
Within popular culture, expression given to adolescent drives has only intensified as the genre of Teen Romance has been distilled and repackaged as Teen Paranormal Romance. Twilight, The Hunger Games, True Blood, and the Divergent Trilogy are also dystopic, psychosexual cyphers for the panoply of Obama-era ideological positions from revanchist religious, economic, and sexual politics to Libertarian fever-dream apocalypticism. This exhibition samples artistic production in the wake of a zeitgeist that has rendered the unconscious a derelict playground home to weeds of surrealism.
Link: “Teen Paranormal Romance” at The Renaissance Society