The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is proud to present Too Fast To Sing, a group exhibition exploring the rapidly shifting landscapes of contemporary music and culture. Please join us on November 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. for our opening reception.
From the underground to the mainstream, everything is in flux. The exhibition title, Too Fast To Sing, gestures toward the dizzying speed at which music’s systems and values are evolving—so quickly that any attempt at definitive theorizing risks immediate obsolescence. The exhibition brings together a constellation of artists deeply engaged with these transformations, documenting, archiving, riffing on, and ultimately building upon music’s contemporary metamorphosis.
Together, the works on view explore how music permeates our emotional lives and daily environments, how technological advances and aesthetics shape its sound, how we gather around it, and how visual artists use music and sound as raw material in their practices. Too Fast To Sing is an attempt to mirror music’s contemporary state, offering an opportunity to study and learn from these critical changes while also glimpsing how the song might continue—or end altogether.
Participating artists:
Amina Cruz
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr
Caitlin Cherry
Christelle Oyiri
Elana Mann
Fiona Connor
Guadalupe Rosales
Harmony Holiday
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Jazmin “Jazzy” Romero
Julian Stein
Luke Fischbeck
Mario Ayala
Neva Wireko
Nico B. Young
Nicole Cooke
Pedro Alejandro Verdin
rafa esparza
Romi Ron Morrison
Sarah Rarah
Tania Daniel
Ulysses Jenkins
Too Fast To Sing is curated by Hugo Cervantes, LAMAG Curator and with research support provided by Cyrus Blot, Getty Marrow Curatorial Intern. Design by Samantha Alexis Manuel, LAMAG Curatorial Associate. lamag.org/too-fast-to-sing/
