Nonmemory
Mike Kelley with Kelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raúl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Lauren Halsey and Max Hooper Schneider Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers/Del Vaz Projects.
Edited with text by Jay Ezra Nayssan. Introduction and text by Mike Kelley. Text by Kathryn Andrews, Miriam Ben Salah, et al. Seven contemporary artists build upon Mike Kelley’s titular concept, producing works that comment on lived experience within built environments Nonmemory brings together works by Mike Kelley and a group of artists—Kelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raúl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Lauren Halsey and Max Hooper Schneider—whose work similarly engages Kelley’s titular concept: the ‘non-memory’ of the various institutional spaces or built environments he encountered in his life. Documenting the eponymous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles in 2023–24, the book also features reproductions of important works by Kelley, his foundational essay, ‘Architectural Non-memory Replaced with Psychic Reality,’ conversations with each artist, and a new text by exhibition curator and editor of the publication Jay Ezra Nayssan.
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