HAMBURG .- Cory Arcangel brings together several recent works in the exhibition Flying Foxes, a solo presentation at the Kunstverein in Hamburg that begins today and will end on February 12th, 2023. The exhibition takes its title from a mega-yacht photographed by Arcangel in the port of Stavanger, Norway, whose ownership is shrouded in mystery. By reproducing this image on a grand scale, Arcangel sets the scene for a group of works that conflate the free-floating transmission and consumption of images online with the life cycle of global resources: from their extraction and circulation in consumer economies to their eventual appearance as assets of the global 0.1%.




Arcangel (b.1978 Buffalo, New York, lives in Stavanger, Norway) is a central figure in a generation of artists responsive to recent technical developments in an increasingly information-saturated global culture. Arcangel’s post-conceptual practice has approached forms such as Photoshop gradients, video game modifications and YouTube tutorials to produce works of art that deal with the inextricable link between digital technology and today’s popular culture. Part of Arcangel’s interest in these current trends is their rapid obsolescence, structurally built into their material – their programming, codes, and hardware. As such, Arcangel’s work deals with the confluence of digital technologies across time, how we experience them aesthetically and by their nature, how they determine such an experience.

Curated by Nicholas Tammens