Pope.L
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Pope.L

Showing Up to Withhold

  1. English
  2. PDF
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About this book

Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze.  His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society's pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display.

Published to accompany his wonderfully inscrutable exhibition Forlesen at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold is simultaneously an artist's book and a monograph. In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.

 

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Introduction / Pope.L and Karen Reimer
  3. The Balloon Inside the Body / Nick Bastis
  4. Food (Gallery)
  5. Reproducing Du Bois and Other Crazy Ideas / Lawrie Balfour
  6. Skin Set (Gallery)
  7. Interference in Pope.L's Skin Set Drawings / K. Silem Mohammad
  8. Forlesen
  9. Showing up to Withold: Pope.L's Deadpan Aesthetic / Lauren Berlant
  10. Interview Between Pope.L abd Hamza Walker
  11. Film (Gallery)
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. Forlesen Catolog
  14. Authors
  15. Born 1955, Newark, New Jersey
  16. Table of Contents / Pope.L
  17. Image Credits
  18. Colophon