© Harmony Korine Photo: Keith Lubow – Harmony Korine new exhibition AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER PART II
Over the last 30 years, American artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine has cultivated a multidisciplinary practice built upon tireless experimentation. A second chapter to Korine’s 2023 exhibition, ‘AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER,’ at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, this exhibition in London features a series of paintings drawn from his newly released film ‘Aggro Dr1ft,’ which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 and was notably shot using infrared cameras. The exhibition’s acid-hued oils display an unprecedented fusion of Korine’s painting and filmic practices. These hallucinatory works, like his films, blur the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ in ways that simultaneously attract and repel viewers with their hypnotic, otherworldly atmosphere.
Harmony Korine, AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER PART II, 9th May – 27th July 2024, Hauser & Wirth
About the artist
Over the last 30 years, Harmony Korine has cultivated a multidisciplinary art practice that resists categorization and is admired internationally for the improvisation, humor, repetition, nostalgia and poetry that unite the disparate aspects of his output. His practice is built upon tireless experimentation and a trial-and-error path, producing what Korine calls ‘Mistakist Art.’ Korine’s oeuvre is both deliberate and erratic, figurative and abstract, and, like his films, blurs boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ in ways that simultaneously attract and repel viewers with its hypnotic, otherworldly atmosphere.
One of the most influential and innovative filmmakers of his generation, his work is guided by memory, emotion, and physical sensation as opposed to strategy and rational thought. Of his art, he has said, ‘I’m chasing something that is more of a feeling, something more inexplicable, a connection to colors and dirt and character, something looping and trancelike, more like a drug experience or a hallucination.’
Experience the London premiere of the film, AGGRO DR1FT, alongside DJ sets by Arca, Evian Christ and Harmony Korine/EDGLRD on May 10th at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney). Audiovisuals by EDGRLD.
AGGRO DR1FT London EartH Fri, 10th May, 8:00 pm- Check Tickets
