F(r)iction

Co-curated with The Task of the Curator (Jillian Davis, Layla Muchnik, Allie Mickle, Alice Phan, Anna Talarico, Emma Traylor, and Eunice Uhm)
April 5-May 3, 2019
Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus

F(r)iction features the work of Kara Gut, Ann Hirsch, and Cole Lu, three artists who play with the boundary between reality and fiction. Re-appropriating a range of sources, from role-playing video games and folkloric fantasies to VH1 dating shows and Disney romances, the works humorously reconstruct the cultural and moral codes that are propagated by predigested conceptions of reality. These artists thus create their own satirical fictions that expose and complicate the hidden systems of control that are perpetuated within mass media.