Stanya Kahn: Friends in Low Places
Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisJanuary 19 - April 22, 2018 Los Angeles-based artist Stanya Kahn has both recycled marks from her paintings and digitally created new figures with no real-world reference point for her installation Friends in Low Places. A new large-scale video made for this exhibition, combines the familiar with the newly invented, a strategy central to Kahn’s art-making. Her practice embodies metaphors for making change in the world, thinking beyond limits and laws, allowing the uncanny to emerge, and embracing complication over simplification.Stanya Kahn: Friends in Low Places is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator.
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All images: Stanya Kahn: Friends in Low Places, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, January 19-April 22, 2018. Photos: Tom Van Eynde.