Alex Israel at Gagosian

I’ve been following Alex Israel’s work since visiting Frieze LA last year. I find his use of self portraits really intriguing, this idea of using his own silhouette as a vessel for visual information about himself and his lifestyle.

As quoted on the Gagosian press release: ” Mining the “food chain” of show business, he interrogates and confounds the fine line between “talent” and “raw material” while reframing and re-presenting manufactured items whose formal and auratic properties are often overlooked”