Hypocritical Mass

Central to Mutually Assured Seduction (MAS) is the celebration of light, a most worthy seductress and, by extension, it’s strange and beautiful bedfellow, darkness.

We need dark to know light, their ongoing tryst of devotion as perpetual as it is ineffable. Light and dark, good and evil, love and war, mating and rejection…

To highlight this enduring drama, the old-school neon light of My Happy Placebo was positioned in direct line-of-site of the vapid glow of Hypocritical Mass, the neon reflection superimposed on the glass walls that enclosed the LED-lit screen.

Is the collision of these two technologies in poor taste? Does the provocation evoke reverence or disrespect? Is the interplay too obtuse? Too obvious?

Glowing fervently, closed off from the show in a room of its own, the LED-lit screen seeks to beckon us nearer. Are we able to resist, instead honoring things crafted the old-fashioned way, painstakingly and by hand, escaping the infinite stroll toward instant gratification?

Beyond questions of quality and consumption, Hypocritical Mass represents our struggle with a sense of entitlement, an insatiable need for attention, and our demand for endless options. Ultimately, do we care enough to respect, and protect, objects that are singular, fussy, delicate, breakable, and hard to replace?

  • Myles Calvert (screen printing)

  • Screen, LED Lights

    30 x 30 in

  • Not Available For Sale


Hypocritical Mass tests our patience and persistence, our ability to remain focused on one thing at a time, lest we fall prey to a cheap, unimpressive imposter and its requisite trickery. A threat to allegiance, to aging and antiquated ideas / technologies / people, we travel the spiral knowing all along — we’ve learned these lessons before and we’ve learned nothing at all.

Forever powerless to the seductive dance of light and dark, within and without, we remain fickle, fallible moths to an eternal flame…

INSTALLATION VIEWS

Noteworthy


NUMBER OF PROGRAMMABLE COLORS

16 million

NUMBER OF COLORS USED


1

FEET OF LED STRIP PROVIDED


100

SELECT DETAILS