The Wall: Chris Succo

Almine Rech is pleased to announce Televised Mind, Chris Succo's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

If concerned with our boundaries of thinking, it may behoove you to start with letters. Marshall McLuhan postured that typography alters language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. In congruence, superpowers saw the economic value of the interchangeability of language with universal alphabets. Language evolved as linear and restrictive, creating a cage around creativity. Western humanity’s 26-29 letters attempt to portray the ineffeble—gesturing at ideas with fictitious sounds circumscribed by a misguided albeit imperative portability of Babylonian need. Despite good intentions and their necessity, the conceptual sound of thought has been bounded, tied, and gagged in a pornographic submission contrary to expanding consciousness. Being at a loss for words is not a personal experience but a species-bound issue of our own making.

- Alexis Schwartz, writer and critic