GLASGOW.- This exhibition at Tramway represents Cécile B. Evans most ambitious installation to date and constitutes the culmination of a three-part installation and video work titled AMOS' WORLD (2017- ongoing).

Often starting from the relationship between humans and new technologies, Cécile B. Evans' work reflects on the value of emotions in contemporary society by exploring forms of human subjectivity and the systems that carry them, as well as the limits of both

AMOS’ WORLD is conceived as a television show set in a socially progressive housing estate. The show, divided into episodes, follows an architect called Amos and the inhabitants of the housing estate. Viewers are first introduced to Amos and some of the tenants, individuals interwoven into the larger infrastructure of Amos’ building. His comfortable perch takes a turn when his perfect individual-communal fantasy for the Capitalist age begins to crumble as the tenants fail to conform to the behaviours he had envisaged.

Each episode is viewed within a unique installation inspired by famous Brutalist housing complexes which echo the environments within the three films. Together the works form an allegory for the networked age, presenting a stage on which the person-to-person power dynamics are played out and deconstructed through technological infrastructures. The viewers, themselves first seated in small cell-like units, witness the first fissures in a carefully constructed network as personal and structural power dynamics break down to reveal the possibility of a resolution.

The exhibition is realised as a co-production by Tramway in partnership with Mumok Vienna, Museum Abteiberg and Galerie Emanuel Layr, with additional support from Art Night London with Hayward Gallery, the Madre Museum, the De Young Museum, FRAC Lorraine and Villa Merkel, and will be the first solo exhibition of Cécile B. Evans' work in a public institution in Scotland.

Cecile B. Evans (b. 1983, Belgian-American) lives and works in London and Berlin.
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Amos’ World, Episode One, mumok, Vienna, 2018; Amos’ World: Episode One, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2017; Art Basel Statements with Galerie Emanuel Layr, Basel, 2017; Sprung A Leak, Museum M, Leuven, 2017; Sprung a Leak, Tate Liverpool, 2016.

Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include: Blind Faith, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2018; Hello World, Mito Art Tower, 2018, Mito; Unthought Environments, Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2018; Glasgow International: Cellular World, Glasgow, 2018; Being There, Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, 2017; 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2016; 20th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, 2016.

Evans was awarded the Illy Prize (2017), the Schering Stiftung (2016), the Palais de Tokyo Push Your Art Prize (2013), and the Frieze Award (2012).

Cecile B. Evans is represented by Emanuel Layr Galeries (Vienna and Rome).