Jacob is the founding director of ‘non-art fair’ Minor Attractions, founding editor of Curatorial Affairs, and founding owner of Season 4 Episode 6, a new art gallery based in London. However, S4EP6 signals a departure from the machinations of the contemporary art world. “This is not just another artist-run art space,” says Barnes. “This is a fundamentally political project that laughs at the very people it involves, making space for true vulnerability, and thus, reckoning with the artifice of the art we claim to work in service of.”
Meanwhile, in London, they just opened a new solo exhibition by multimedia artist Ahren Warner called “i love you, you say/i know, they say,” which will run until October 5.
In this exhibition, famed ass-wipe Dan Bilzerian appears as one of the show’s protagonists. In his (as of writing) 1,382 Instagram posts, Bilzerian expresses a desire so base, stock average, and thoroughly unoriginal as to be laughable but also pretty depressing. Shot as high-resolution pixel-shift composites, with Warner’s camera pointed at his iPhone screen, then printed on velvet, we are reminded that these images reference a fantasy which has been sold to us but is not necessarily our own. Ironically, Bilzerian would likely say the same thing we would about everything in these pictures (yet mean something very different): it is all confusingly alluring and remarkably foreign.
