We are in the business of feelings.

Welcome.

Feelings don’t get talked about much when it comes to art don’t you think? It’s an elephant in the room somehow/ Other immaterial things that are comparable, like taste or sound do get discussed more it seems. Why?

Maybe it’s because emotions are too subjective, fleeting and complex to properly address. “You know what I mean”. Yet all things are manufactured with an emotional intent, and we live in this concrete world of residual, left over feelings present in the things around us. A cemetery of hard feelings. We pick up on those fast, they affect us.

As a starter into the world of feelings of things, one could look at how the things reach us, how they are packaged, presented, branded, etc. That’s where we are here.

In the rooms before you stand two sentences. I cut them up in little sections. Each section is to be spoken out loud. You will recognize them. For instance

daisy-enter-grate

spells out “disintegrate”.

I invite you to navigate through the space and get a sense of what’s around you. Look at how the things exist in their magical banality. How I brought them to you with intent.

Packaging Or Envelopes. All Feelings Disintegrate Up Close.

Antoine Catala (b. 1975 Toulouse, FR; lives and works in New York City) has been included in a number of museum and prestigious exhibitions worldwide, including most recently the 58th Venice Biennale curated by Ralph Rugoff (2019); Kunsthalle Mainz (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2018); Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toulouse (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2017); Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2016); Whitney Museum, New York (2015); and the New Museum Triennial, New York (2015) amongst others. In 2018 he was shortlisted for the Nam June Paik award at the Westfälischer Kunsteverin, Münster.