Exhibition

Björn Kämmerer / Group XXXVIII, Apr 2014 - Sep 2014

GROUP 38

9/5/14 to 9/7/14

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

In security-and-protection-obsessed Southern California, Vienna-based artist Björn Kämmerer shot a 35mm film focusing on the ‘bad guy’ targets used for marksmanship practice. Made by a company in Minnesota for law enforcement clientele, these poster-size images typecast American outlaws, lowlifes, and other imagined threats to suburban harmony. Similar targets are presented in sequence, as instantaneous flashes, some differently highlighting subtle anatomical details like organs and spinal position, others presenting more abstract graphics over certain parts of the targeted images. The looped film was shown in 16mm in the Mackey Garage Top.

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