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