Bryant Giles, “I’M ALIVE?”

Tasks: press work, press preview coordination, invitation of press, selected guests and community to the opening.

LA and Tokyo based artist and designer Bryant Giles presented his first Berlin solo show I’M ALIVE? at Schlachter 151, the new art space founded by OOR Studio. The show featured 32 works of paintings and drawings that constitute the extension of an exhibition divided into two parts linked to each other, one in Tokyo and one in Berlin.

The works on display drew from a largely unseen body of work challenging themes of mental health, the current social-economic state and freedom of speech, ultimately evoking the participant to ponder “am I alive? or a mere shell of oneself?”. The exhibition explored such themes in a variety of media and canvases ranging from film to painting, photography, drawings and score works.

With I’M ALIVE? Giles dived deep into questioning what it is essentially like to be alive now. “I have been intensely reflecting on how desensitised people have become nowadays, because it is hard to feel present through how much we consume. This has been a cold splash on my face during the entire creation of the exhibition”.

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