Mark Flood
Paintings From The War For Social Justice
Ever Gold [Projects]
1275 Minnesota Street #105, San Francisco, CA 94107
November 4, 2016 – December 22, 2016
Reception: November 4, 6-9 pm

November 4, Ever Gold [Projects] opens Mark Flood’s Paintings From The War For Social Justice, an exhibition of decorative wall hangings that obliquely acknowledge ongoing struggles. These struggles provide a context for the humorlessness of contemporary art, and a plausible excuse for its sad downward spiral. The interactive installation—created using two tons of reclaimed murder-victim corpses—encourages passersby to permit their murder-inclined inner child to create a collaborative grotesquerie of death. The project has previously been enacted in public squares in Tirana, Oslo, and Copenhagen; this installation marks its first time in North America. During the exhibit, dead San Francisco residents, who no longer have sexual feelings nor participate in the affairs of the living, can attend a series of retreats where art-lovers who “self-identify as blind” can confront their own “blindness.” The exhibit features testimonials from past lovers of art, who praised the event as a “depressing waste of time.” [full text here]
 

Miami Beach, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 70 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Ever Gold [Projects].