This exhibition explores the subtle, often invisible mechanisms that shape perception—whether commercial, psychological, or spatial. From the sound of a car door to the color of soap bubbles, the world around us is full of designed cues that trigger emotion, behavior, and memory. These peripheral signals—sonic, chromatic, or atmospheric—create the conditions in which experience takes form. As theorist Slavoj Žižek notes in an anecdote about Marilyn Monroe, it is the minor detail—the mole at the edge of perfection—that unlocks a deeper sense of beauty. This exhibition leans into that periphery, asking what kinds of meaning or truth reside just beyond the center of attention.
Tony Cokes, Brandon Lattu, and Jesse Stecklow each approach this inquiry through distinct visual and conceptual languages. Cokes’s text-based video works dissect the ideological undercurrents of media and music, using color, citation, and rhythm to provoke thought and bodily response. Stecklow’s responsive installations draw from environmental conditions, sound, and language to interrogate how meaning accrues over time and through space. Lattu’s recent sculptures—illuminated by real television broadcast signals—consider how physical space absorbs the abstract transmissions of mass media. His work National Broadcasting Company, for example, channels the UHF signal of NBC into sculpture, reflecting on his parents’ ritual of nightly news viewing as a shared, collective act in contrast to today's individualized digital feed.
Curated by Antonio Bever, this exhibition brings together practices that make the immaterial visible and trace the infrastructures—emotional, technological, and cultural—that shape how we see, feel, and move through the world.
