“You want to watch out love, you’ll walk into a lamppost wearing your scarf like that!” is exactly the sort of comment you won’t hear cultured types like us at We Heart make while walking around the Frozen Lakes exhibition at Artists Space in New York City.

The gallery has been going a while – in fact none of the We Hearters were yet born when it hosted the exhibition Pictures in 1977 (oh all right, maybe one of us was, but only just), which came with an essay from art historian Douglas Crimp which drew attention to “quotation, excerptation, framing and staging”. Frozen Lakes looks at the work of post-Pictures artists from these standpoints, ten artists or art collectives have contributed work from the intervening years in fact, including Slavs and Tatars and Metahaven, whose accident-inviting neckwear we mentioned earlier. The modern world of information leaks, data warfare, brand messaging and the corrosion of truth are all explored in aesthetic glory; you have until 24th March to take a closer look in person at the Greene Street gallery.

Metahaven, WikiLeaks,
2011. Scarf
Photo Meinke Klein

Installation views courtesy Artists Space New York.
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