The exhibition, Strange Attractors, The Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 3: Lost In Space, is organized by the American writer and curator, Bob Nickas. This is the third and final installment of his Strange Attractors series which began with an exhibition in Los Angeles in 2017, Life On Earth, followed by another in New York in 2018, The Rings of Saturn.
The initial idea for Strange Attractors, back in that “yesterworld” when life proceeded much as it had before, was based on an imaginative fiction ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing in 1969: assemble a collection of artworks to be sent into space, meant to communicate to whoever might be out there: this is who we are, this is how humans visually articulate thought. All art does that, of course. But all art does not necessarily lend itself to that level of reverie—to be lost in thought, to be lost in space, body and mind, buoyant, weightless, drifting but not adrift. Now the world has shifted again, and reverie may seem irresponsible, interrupted by a bad dream from which many won’t soon awake. Lost In Space? The story of my life is that it goes on. Who said that? We may never know.
The show features the artists David Adamo; Yuji Agematsu; Barry X Ball; Huma Bhabha; Ryan Forester; Jason Fox; Tillman Kaiser; Arnold J. Kemp; L; Servane Mary; Justin Matherly; John Miller; Christopher Myers; Nikholis Planck; Nicolas Roggy; Sally Ross; Kathleen Ryan; Davina Semo; TARWUK; Gert & Uwe Tobias and Frederick Weston.
