This three-channel video installation will leave you entranced, smiling at its ridiculousness, and maybe with a New Order song stuck in your head. A beige inflatable couch in the gallery, which appears in the videos, invites you to sit and watch three different characters—a bear, an autumn tree, and a skull-faced woman in a blue spandex suit and purple headscarf—pursue various artistic endeavors, in particular drumming. They also tap dance, build wooden models in front of a computer, bicker with each other, and have meltdowns on the couch. These comical characters, which have appeared in Mole’s previous work, are now left to their own devices in their own spaces, as if they’re navigating becoming adults—or artists—but still dancing in their bedrooms by themselves.

Gattopardo
2626 N. Figueroa St., Unit C
Los Angeles, CA 90065
On view through April 16, 2023