Lucie Stahl is presenting solo exhibition End of Tales at Los Angeles’ Freedman Fitzpatrick, which opened July 30 and is running to September 2.
The room shrinks in size as two large tents fill the space, each one with a different slogan written upside down: ‘American Eagle’ and ‘Browns Bears.’ Inside the red marquee are folding chairs, magazines, rose stems and electric tea candles. The green one is filled with canvas, copper, scattered roses and a folding cot with a teddy bear on top. Hung around the walls are mixed-media works made of inkjet prints, collage inside plexiglass, aluminum and epoxy resin.
Through a language of humour and critique, the Berlin-based artist explores the space where competitive sports becomes tangled up with national identity and war in “BE AGGRESSIVE, B-E AGGRESSIVE, B-E-A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.” Here, as stated in the press release, “The global is local. The personal is political. Man up. Stand by your man. Protect your team.” **