Alex Gardner's "Animals" Exhibition at Perrotin: A Meditation on Instinct and Social Contracts
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A reflective piece on Alex Gardner's new exhibition "Animals" at Perrotin Los Angeles. The author explores the provocative title and its implications about human nature — that beneath social constructs, we remain instinctual creatures. The work is described as honest and disarming, rendered in deep blues with abstracted figures.
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· 3 pulledThe word lands with a blunt, even barbaric force, a reminder that beneath the social contracts and the curated surfaces of modern life, we remain creatures of instinct, driven by needs we can barely name.
Gardner is not being unkind. He is being honest.
The title is a reckoning: with our shared rawness, our collective inability to fully transcend the thing we are.
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