conditions
alexandre saden
February 27 - March 21
Windows at ArtCenter DTLA
CONDITIONS presents two recent bodies of work by Alexandre Saden, To See a Field and Between Empty Suns, which both attempt to make tangible within the work of art the structures — the metaphorical or imaginative processes — that underpin them.
The title CONDITIONS is meant to evoke both the necessary conditions for artistic creation and the conditions, understood as limitations, imposed on artistic creation by the forms they inherit and inhabit. Both bodies of work also use differentiation within a rigid system of rules as their main generative principle: a theater of small differences.
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Artist bio
Alexandre Saden (b. 1993, Paris, France) is an artist and writer whose work interrogates the visual metaphors through which beliefs and ideas acquire meaning. Taking the form of sculptural, textual and video installations, the work consistently involves a tension between discourses and reality, between the pleasures of visual experience and its ideological structure. Saden received a BFA from Central Saint Martins (London, UK) and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles, CA). His work has been exhibited internationally, and his writing has been published in the Getty Research Journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Business of Fashion. He currently is based in Los Angeles, CA.