Klaus Gallery is pleased to present “Bodysnatchers”, a group show featuring works by Karsen Heagle, Jenny Jisun Kim, Levani, Mónica Palma, and Robin Peck. The show will open at the gallery on May 29th and run runs through July 11.
The 1955 Book “The Bodysnatchers” by Jack Finney, and its successive film adaptation(s), “Invasion of the Bodysnatchers” are often interpreted allegorically to reflect the anxieties of the Cold War era. In the story, alien spores replace citizens of a small town in California with “pod-people”—emotionless, sterile doppelgangers who use up resources and if left unchecked will turn the earth into a dead planet and move on to the next world. The plot has been seen to represent the threat of communism, McCarthyism and the “red scares”, and paranoia about societal collapse. This show looks to our current political anxieties, including the loss of institutions and the rise of authoritarianism, political “othering” or erasing, ecological devastation, and the loss of due process amongst a broader erosion of rights.
