WAVE Contemporary presents Generative Performance System at after/time collective gallery from July 06 - July 22, featuring artists Nicholas Moler-Gallardo and Chris Ticas making work in conversation with one another.

Join the opening reception on Thursday, July 6, 6-9 pm

Sat-Sun 12-4 / Tues & Thurs 6-8 / Opens July 6, 2023 6-9 pm

The exhibition uses the artist's daily life as the platform for them to collaborate. By using the ability to share each other's location, through mobile devices, the artist’s question the power of this knowledge. By having access to eachothers locations Moler-Gallardo and Ticas have gained access to the others personal and public life.

Living in a highly screen-based world the artists are always able to draw a line to one another, but how does this intimate tool actually keep them connected? Moler-Gallardo and Ticas use this tool to address this alternative sense of security and connection. In our world, sharing locations is one of the highest forms of trust, but how does this knowledge affect us? Is there any intention of control over someone when we ask them to become digitally visible to us? As we strive to be constantly connected and updated we begin to lose sight of what this means in a physical world. How does the screen distort these feelings of connection and how can we actively push against these false faculties?

As the artists share each other's location a portrait begins to form, since they both shape an image of themselves based on their habits, work lives and daily life rituals. But unlike normal forms of social media there is no editing, they choose to be watched live. Moler-Gallardo and Ticas remain visible and collaborate through the digital landscape creating a dialogue that both references the status quo while being aware of the potential implications.

(This exhibition was generously supported by The Ford Family Foundation, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) and Prosper Portland).