Welcome to Suture Zone and the second exhibition entitled Zozobra II. Context for this exhibition comes from a global backdrop of the rise of the far-right, fascist, Neo-nazi, white nationalist, religious extremist billionaire, Epstein class, profiteers from everyday disaster, environmental destruction, wielding a chainsaw to the pillars of civil society and the rule of law, violence, piracy, surveillance, murder, genocide, and war. In other words, the next 6 months will be like the last 6 months - but not like 90 years ago. The fascism of today has birthed a grotesque, stillborn billionaire wanting to simply cause destruction for its own sake.
A faction of partisans have heard the call to action. They have picked up the tools of the oppressors and wield them toward the enemy but also against the masses of ambivalent participants, the people of gears, to stimulate independent thinking. This exhibition can engender people to recognize the growing threats from fascist influences and the effects they have on individuals, communities and whole societies. Now these artists are present in the moment, consumed by the rumble, the sounds of sirens, the sting of tear gas, the rhythms of batons and shields, the syncopated beats of boot tracks, smoke on the horizon and in your eyes, as the earth and its landscape split and tear, moving in opposite political directions. The vast suture zone reveals the raw minerals and exotic elements that rhizome across great distances, from which these artworks have been collected. Each artist has been exposed to the toxicity, decay, and corruption, and the injustices of racism and genocide from the war against life. The resulting artworks emerge from the deep canyon strata and the outer crust of the earth, revealing the forms of our oppression leaving us in zozobra. This art explores how we confront fascism in the 21st Century and forging a resistance against the existential anxiety that it embodies.
“The medium is the message” - which has brought you this exhibition of artists from around the world. Each artwork represents a “tele” (at a distance) “view” (seen from a particular point of view). A transmission between two places, first for the artist and after, the viewer. Teleportation over time- We stand in a smoke-filled alcove, living with centuries of art and culture, watching it fade and be corrupted, twisted and exploited beyond recognition and meaning, resulting in the dissolution of history and memory. In response, artists are reassembling themselves for the next viewing location. They work in every medium, overlaying anxiety, glazing trauma, juxtaposed scenes and memories, shot out of an ammo box of emotions at different scales and directions. They stand to be a mirror and use symbols they've inherited to make sense of them in today's context of alternative facts, inverted logic, reverse appropriation, threats and violence. And yet they continue to create, alone in the face of that oppression, wielding brush and chisel and pixel, they scrape, gouge, delete on a page in clay or on screen. They are defined by dualities, deities and data. Dissolution and reassembly by quantum scissors and glue, blown to bits and reordered, digitized, recorded, ordered to speak in tongues old and new languages to create messages so we may all see the same point on the horizon. Freedom, Justice, Equality.
Jingo Strange
July 2026
