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Andrew Norman Wilson, Pretense (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist; Human Resources, Los Angeles + Document, Chicago.

Andrew Norman Wilson explores paranoia in economic networks, coding + algorithms using anthropomorphism for Pretense

, 9 November 2017

Andrew Norman Wilson presented solo exhibition Pretense at Los Angeles’ Human Resources, which opened October 6 and ran to October 20.

Andrew Normal Wilson, Pretense (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist; Human Resources, Los Angeles + Document, Chicago.

Co-presented by Chicago’s Document, the installation brings together resin cast sculptures, videos, a custom computer case turned into a house for mosquitos and puppetry both hand and computer-generated. 

Making narrative scenarios where “rational thought becomes contradictory and human exceptionalism unravels,” the works use anthropomorphism to explore the paranoia within economic networks, coding and algorithms. Without a clear ending, the audience is placed into a loop where “puppets are subjected to biological and computational functions” that offer no escape.**

Andrew Norman Wilson’s Pretense solo exhibition was on at Los Angeles’ Human Resources, running October 6 to 20, 2017.