Exhibition Walkthrough: Jonathan Horowitz at Mitchell-Innes & Nash | ArtAsForm Tours

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Human Nature, an exhibition of new work by Jonathan Horowitz. Featuring video, painting, and lenticular photography, the show is the artist’s first with the gallery and follows Horowitz’s acclaimed exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz (2020-21).
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Human Nature, an exhibition of new work by
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Jonathan Horowitz. Featuring video, painting, and lenticular photography, the show is the artist’s first with the gallery and follows Horowitz’s acclaimed exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz (2020-21).
“Jonathan Horowitz’s art speaks truth to power and illuminates the complexities of our cultural landscape with a sharp wit and uncompromising vision,” said Lucy Mitchell-Innes. “He challenges the status quo and reshapes the way we see the world.”
The centerpiece of Human Nature is a new, three-channel audio/video installation, also titled Human Nature, dealing with representations of the Holocaust and the normalization of authoritarianism. Comprised of found footage, sources include the 1959 Hollywood movie, The Diary of Anne Frank, in which the Holocaust is the backdrop for a coming-of-age romance, and the 1974, soft-core, art house classic, The Night Porter, in which Nazism is presented as a sexual fetish. Bridging the two scenarios is the 1995 trailer for Michael Jackson’s HIStory album, in which Jackson appears as a military-style dictator worshiped by throngs of hysterical fans. Filmed on the streets of Budapest before Soviet-era buildings, the imagery evokes current geopolitical conflicts and the rise of nativist populism.
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