The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs presents a new exhibition, To View a Plastic Flower, at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) from February 13 – April 19, 2020, The group exhibition features new video and multimedia installations by 3 artists: Abigail Raphael Collins, T. Kim-Trang Tran, and Samira Yamin that engage themes of interdependence, positionality, and the poetics (as well as politics) of conflict.
Central to the exhibition’s title and themes, To View a Plastic Flower is a Buddhist monk and antiwar activist Thích Nhất Hạnh’s idea of “inter-being,” meaning nothing can exist by itself, instead, everything has to “inter-be.” Viewed through the lens of a plastic flower, the works in the exhibition provide a multi-dimensional interrogation of the construction, representation, and limitations of knowledge through media as a means to understand our socio- and geopolitical times.
For more information, visit: https://www.lamag.org/visit/ Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation.
