""It shouldn't make people nostalgic for the 2007/pre-2008 peak. That was silly money fuelled by greed. It would just be nice for artists to make a living, for galleries to not go bust (and owe artists money) due to rent hikes or overexpansion, and for institutions to pay artists and staff fairly.""
""By heightening the qualities of artifice and imitation, it makes you see its contradictions and hypocrisies more clearly.""
""We survived y2k, but now the real world source code is malfunctioning. The world is flat, the debt is deep and sprawling.""
""The cast of archetypes (the unstable artist, the predatory collector, the performative art students) are sharp, and the work earns its dramatic irony.""
The exhibition, Genuine Fake Premium Economy, features artists Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison, and Jasmine Gregory, who explore capitalism's visual and material cultures. Curator Nicole Leong highlights the need for fair artist compensation and sustainable gallery practices. The artists, shaped by the post-2008 financial crisis, utilize appropriation and mimicry in their work to reveal contradictions in capitalism. Bliss's video sets the tone, addressing societal issues and the art market's instability, while later works dramatize the art world's dynamics before the financial crash.
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