{"id":1283,"date":"2022-01-31T19:19:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/?post_type=exhibition&p=1283"},"modified":"2022-01-31T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:19:02","slug":"josh-kline-antibodies","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/josh-kline-antibodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Kline \u2013 Antibodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Josh Kline \u2013 Antibodies<\/h1>\n\n02. Oct. 2020 – 03. Jan. 2021<\/span>\n\n
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Astrup Fearnley Museet is proud to present the first major museum exhibition of the American artist Josh Kline in Scandinavia. Kline has attracted attention in recent years with his thought-provoking artistic practice, which focuses on the technological, economic and biological changes affecting human life in the 21st Century. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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The exhibition Antibodies <\/em>addresses the precariousness of life and work in a predatory neoliberal society where instability and crisis describes not only labour, but our very existence as a species. Kline\u2019s installations, sculptures, and videos are works of critical science-fiction that speculate on the radical possibilities of the near-future\u2014potential dystopian and utopian transformations of politics, economics, technology and biology in the coming years and decades. Kline\u2019s fictional visions of the future are extrapolated from phenomena shaping today\u2019s reality ranging from surveillance and police brutality, to social and economic inequality, and the value and future of human work in an era of increasing automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kline is among the important young artistic voices that has emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, addressing the human condition in a global, late-capitalist reality that is characterised by rapid technological development, socio-economic upheaval and a rapidly accelerating global climate catastrophe. His artistic practice is powerful, prescient and poses vital questions about a world on the brink of both possible ruin and rebirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the artist:\u00a0<\/strong>Josh\u00a0Kline\u00a0(b. 1979, Philadelphia, USA) lives and works in New York. His art has been exhibited internationally, including in solo exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Modern Art, London; and 47 Canal, New York. In 2019, his work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial;\u00a0New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century<\/em>\u00a0at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and\u00a0The Body Electric<\/em>\u00a0at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Kline\u2019s work is in the permanent collections of Astrup Fearnley Museet; Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim in America, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator:\u00a0<\/strong>Therese M\u00f6llenhoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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