The Dikeou Collection is pleased to welcome Collective Misnomer as they present Surface and Reception, a curated screening of short films by artists Ka-Lun Leung, Ali Coates and Signe Pierce, Pablo Garcia & Addie Wagenknecht, Karissa Hahn, and David Oresick at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 E Colfax Ave. Doors open at 7:30pm, screening begins at 8pm. This event is open to the public.
The artists in Surface and Reception do not utilize beauty as a means to validate their work but rather to critique how we value pleasing aesthetics in art and society to an extreme degree. Separated from the goal of trying to capture and portray beauty as a primary ambition, the program highlights the depth of society’s exclusive interest in beauty, while also accentuating the harm in that ideology. The desire for the beautiful is not utilized to sedate (for once) but more to subvert. Simultaneously the works also bring to the forefront the role of the camera and how its presence sculpts behavior.