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Woodrow White - "Babel Video"

Past exhibition
6 - 27 January 2018 Hashimoto Contemporary SF
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Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF

Hashimoto Contemporary SF is pleased to present Babel Video, a solo exhibition by Woodrow White. The artist will transform the gallery into a video-rental store, complete with hand-painted DVDs and movie posters from the White’s created universe of fictitious films. 

 

Woodrow White’s paintings explore the failure of illusion by examining the nexus of narrative, history, and artifice. White’s work speaks to the anxiety surrounding the validity of information, where trust in images has been irreparable damaged by mass consumption. The artist’s iconoclastic paintings are in response to our current, seemingly-apocalyptic, news headlines. Each tableau draws upon politically divisive topics like climate change, social inequalities, economics, and war. 

 

For the exhibition, the artist will physically alter the gallery space into a video-rental store filled with a collection of imaginary films. Viewers are invited to browse through the shelves to discover titles like Toxic Masculinity II, Feminazis, and Fluid of the Druids. In addition to the hand-painted DVDs, the show will also feature large-scale paintings of movie posters advertising invented blockbusters. 

 

Babel Video is a response to Hollywood’s syndication of escapism. White is particularly interested in the industry’s rampant obsession with genre franchises. The exhibition title references both the biblical myth of the Tower of Babel, as well as the short story ‘The Library of Babel’ by Jose Luis Borges. The artist elaborates on his vision as an “absurdist Borgesian storefront filled with forgotten films you can’t even find on the internet.”

 

Please join us for Babel Video, opening Saturday, January 6 with an evening reception from 6pm - 9pm, where the artist will be in attendance. This exhibition will be on view through Saturday, January 27. For more information, additional images, or exclusive content, please email us at info@hashimotocontemporary.com.

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Works
  • Woodrow White, Merger, 2017
    Woodrow White, Merger, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Anthropocene, 2017
    Woodrow White, Anthropocene, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Manocide, 2017
    Woodrow White, Manocide, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Clearance, 2017
    Woodrow White, Clearance, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Blood and Chlorine, 2017
    Woodrow White, Blood and Chlorine, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Cursor, 2017
    Woodrow White, Cursor, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Bloodhole, 2017
    Woodrow White, Bloodhole, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Death Rattle, 2017
    Woodrow White, Death Rattle, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Carrion Items, 2017
    Woodrow White, Carrion Items, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Don't Wish Upon A Dead Star, 2017
    Woodrow White, Don't Wish Upon A Dead Star, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Doom Tomb, 2017
    Woodrow White, Doom Tomb, 2017
  • Woodrow White, El Herjon, 2017
    Woodrow White, El Herjon, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Expellr, 2017
    Woodrow White, Expellr, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Fluid of the Druids, 2017
    Woodrow White, Fluid of the Druids, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Futurians, 2017
    Woodrow White, Futurians, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Feminazis, 2017
    Woodrow White, Feminazis, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Goo Ghouls, 2017
    Woodrow White, Goo Ghouls, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Manocide, 2017
    Woodrow White, Manocide, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Lost In The Frost, 2017
    Woodrow White, Lost In The Frost, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Hairy Man, 2017
    Woodrow White, Hairy Man, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Myth Planet, 2017
    Woodrow White, Myth Planet, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Neighpalm, 2017
    Woodrow White, Neighpalm, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Offending Command, 2017
    Woodrow White, Offending Command, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Ool, 2017
    Woodrow White, Ool, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Ninja Law, 2017
    Woodrow White, Ninja Law, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Psychic Side-Chick, 2017
    Woodrow White, Psychic Side-Chick, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Pyschic Side Chick, 2017
    Woodrow White, Pyschic Side Chick, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Plutoid, 2017
    Woodrow White, Plutoid, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Quotas, 2017
    Woodrow White, Quotas, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Subpeona, 2017
    Woodrow White, Subpeona, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Sex Moon, 2017
    Woodrow White, Sex Moon, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Toxic Masculinity II, 2017
    Woodrow White, Toxic Masculinity II, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Tricky Lights, 2017
    Woodrow White, Tricky Lights, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Terminal Vendetta, 2017
    Woodrow White, Terminal Vendetta, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Vanquish, 2017
    Woodrow White, Vanquish, 2017
  • Woodrow White, 4 Film Pak, 2017
    Woodrow White, 4 Film Pak, 2017
  • Woodrow White, The Goo Ghoul, 2017
    Woodrow White, The Goo Ghoul, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Goo Ghouls, 2017
    Woodrow White, Goo Ghouls, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Untitled, 2017
    Woodrow White, Untitled, 2017
  • Woodrow White, Snapper, 2017
    Woodrow White, Snapper, 2017
Installation Views
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
  • Installation image from Woodrow White's "Babel Video" at Hashimoto Contemporary SF
Video

Babel Video - Woodrow White from Hashimoto Contemporary on Vimeo.

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  • Woodrow White painting of people watching outdoor movie at dusk, Scream killer is on the screen with a knife in his hand

    Woodrow White

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