Curated by Eden Deering, Hope is a dangerous thing brings together a group of artworks viewed through the lens of their makers’personal connections to and reverence for pop music.
acrylic paint on polypropylene, steel chain, metal wire and acrylic Dimensions variable
acrylic paint on polypropylene, steel chain, metal wire and acrylic Dimensions variable
acrylic paint on polypropylene, steel chain, metal wire and acrylic Dimensions variable
Taking its title from the final song in Lana Del Rey’s 2019 studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, the exhibition presents new and recent worksbyseven artists as individual pop personas and as a unified ensemble. Combining millennial nostalgia with an embrace of camp and melodrama, the paintings, sculptures, installations, and video on view relish their own extravagance and the embarrassment of self-invention. Like the imperfect and enigmatic pop icon herself, they are completely genuine and totally fake, extremely personal and entirely vague. Exaggerated, ambitious, and passionate,each work understands its own delusions of grandeur and yet persists because something tells us it matters.
That’s where I make a little space for you, 2022
acrylic paint on mylar and acrylic sheet 44 x 18 x 3/8 ins. 111.8 x 45.7 x 1 cm
Featuring artists: Kyle Dunn, Raque Ford, Paul Kopkau, Diane Severin Nguyen, Kayode Ojo, Marianna Simnett, and Robin F. Williams
“Don’t ask if I’m happy, you know that I’m not. But, at best, I can say I’m not sad. ‘Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have…”
Hope is a dangerous thing 6th June – 12th July 2025 P·P·O·W
On Thursday, June 12th, P·P·O·W will present an evening of film, readings, and performance, co-programmed by Rebecca Celli.
