KAHN & SELESNICK @ Kopeikin Gallery

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KAHN & SELESNICK @ Kopeikin Gallery

May 17th, 2018 by fstop

KAHN & SELESNICK: Madame Lulu’s Book of Fate
June 2nd – July 7th, 2018

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2nd from 6 – 8 pm

“Kahn & Selesnick’s latest project “Madame Lulu’s Book of Fate” continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. In this body of work, the artists also examine the notion of the carnivalesque – traditionally the carnival was a time when the normal order of society was upended and reversed, so that at least for a day the fool might become king, the sinner a priest, men and women might cross dress, and sacred ceremonies and normal mores are burlesqued and spoofed. During such brief times of anarchy, societal pressures were relieved by revealing their somewhat absurd and arbitrary natures. Costumes and masks were traditionally worn so that all people might have the same social status during the duration of the festival. The Truppe ask you to consider: is it the carnival that is upside-down, or perhaps the real world that it purports to burlesque?”

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Location: California, Los Angeles, United States Type: Exhibition

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