Exhibition: The Past Will Fail You
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Mon, Aug 5, 2024 - Fri, Aug 23, 2024
Location
836M
836 Montgomery St
Details
The Past Will Fail You is multi-media artist Edward Mills‘ artistic U.S. debut. Born and raised in the United States, Mills has lived in Paris, France for the last two decades. Since 2019, he has exhibited throughout Paris and elsewhere in France. Working between drawing, painting and sculpture, his organic style combines a form of surrealist automatism with physically demanding, machine-like outputs.
The exhibition and residency explore the destruction of the self as a necessary part of growth and self-actualization. The public is invited to view the artist at work as he explores space beyond that with which he is familiar. This process, on view during the exhibition and residency, involves the artist’s preparation for and real-time dialogue with an interactive sculpture entitled “The Cube” – a conceptual device representing whoever interacts with it. Using the experience of interplay with the Cube throughout the exhibition, the artist collects and codifies new discoveries into an original artwork, created entirely during the residency.
On specific occasions the artist will also invite the public to participate in their own self-discovery by engaging with The Cube, bringing their own frontiers and universes, beyond which they wish to explore.
The final, completed artwork will be publicly exhibited at the conclusion of the residency, along with The Cube through which it was conceived.
An opening reception for Mills will take place at 6:30 p.m. on August 8; the closing reception will take place on August 22.
Call for Participation
During the upcoming Artist Residency, The Past Will Fail You, at 836M, an art organization with a gallery space in San Francisco, the invited artist is proposing several different ways to participate in an artistic process, involving a form of play with a sculpture entitled, The Cube. If you would like to receive more information about this unique opportunity, please write to: edward.mills@gmail.com and info@836m.org with the subject: Participate TPWFY