Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Seth Price

Social Synthetic

15.04.2017 - 03.09.2017
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view

Price’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum offers an unflinching portrait of contemporary, mediated Western life. A key theme in Price’s work is the self under technological pressure. This is often expressed in terms of the ‘skins’ of surface, packaging, and wrapping: a photographic study of a person’s skin obtained through the technologies Google employs for mapping; a vacuum-formed plastic relief presenting a body part stranded in plastic; a large wall sculpture depicting the negative space between two people engaged in intimate action, greatly enlarged from a tiny internet jpeg. 

Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne
Social Synthetic
Installation view
Photo: Simon Vogel, Cologne