Opening on September 20, 2023, at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, a new exhibition will explore American mythologies through the work of four artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: Lee Lozano, Mira Schor, Mike Kelley, and Ser Serpas.
Entitled Mythologies américaines, the exhibition presents artists who share a fierce sense of irony and a critical eye on the flaws of post-war American society, particularly as manifested in countercultures.
Mythologies américaines will feature a series of displays: Lee Lozano’s Strike, the dual connotation of which collides social, emotional and art world content in the explosion of the artist’s inner sense of critique; Ghost and Spirit—a presentation of Mike Kelley’s art as well as an exploration of notions of collective and individual memory, gender relations and social classes; Mira Schor’s Moon Room—an exhibition where the political and the theoretical meet from the artist’s point of view through memory and intimate perception of the female gaze; and Ser Serpas’s I fear, inspired by Alejandro Amenábar’s fantasy film The Others (2001), reveals an art space full of music, ghostly echoes mourning the symbol of artist’s loss of reality.
For more information, visit the official Bourse de Commerce website.
No title (Toilet Lid), 1962-1963
Courtesy of the artist, PINAULT COLLECTION
Photography by FLORENT MICHEL
Kandors Full Set, 2005-2009
Photography by FREDRIK NILSEN
Courtesy of WEST OF ROME INC., PINAULT COLLECTION, MIKE KELLEY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, ADAGP, Paris, 2023
Mask Book, 1977
Courtesy of the artist, PINAULT COLLECTION
No title, 1962
Courtesy of the artist, PINAULT COLLECTION
Featured image by MIKE KELLEY
EAPR #9 (Farm Girl), 2004-2005
Courtesy of ELECTRONIC ARTS INTEMIX (EAI), MIKE KELLEY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, ADAGP, Paris, 2023
