Subjects are framed by digitized rectangles-the type that pop up when facial recognition software hones in on a known pixel pattern others have crosshairs trained on them, like the targets of a drone strike. The scene is jovial, but the context is not. Lining 303’s walls are blurry, amber-tinted photographs of friends encircling a beachside bonfire. She’s battling a rough head cold from the trip, but her voice is unmistakably familiar. She’s just returned from New York, where her show “ The Bonfire ” opened at 303 Gallery. “It’s kind of ironic that I ended up as a public person who’s sort of uncomfortable with it all,” Gordon tells Artnet News over the phone from her home in California. Following the rather public dissolution of her band and marriage in 2011, Gordon moved to her hometown of Los Angeles and refocused on her art practice, which enacts some of the same public-vs-private tension that’s ungirded her personal life over the past decade. ![]() ![]() The goal, she wrote at the time, was to use “art to deconstruct design.”Ĥ0 years later, the impulses behind those interventions still inform Gordon’s art making. ![]() Before she was Sonic Youth’s iconic bassist, sing-speaking recondite poetry over squealing guitars, and before she published her memoir, started a fashion line, and acted in films, Kim Gordon was an art-school kid staging interventions in friends’ apartments.
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