Danny Giles
Danny Giles’ work concerns how we collectively construct culture, identity, and ideology and how these positions get expressed through visual culture and historical narratives. His objects and performances respond to these conditions through permutations and experiments with culturally loaded materials and social scenarios. He often utilizes the visual methods of consumer media, protest, and art historical tropes to address issues of political speech, visibility, difference, and the act of looking itself. Much of the artist’s work address the ways in which bodies, objects and spaces each perform to inform how we relate to each other and ourselves. According to the artist, “Art is where materiality, history and lived experience rub together and where memory, perception and language coalesce to form new meaning.” Giles’ work necessarily takes many forms as it meditates on the multiple and at times indeterminate platforms upon which identities are reproduced, commodified, and re-invented. His research examines and perverts the instruments of capitalism and engages subversive cultural practices that have developed historically as resistance to economic and social dispossession.
Giles has exhibited and performed at spaces including The Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, Smack Mellon in New York, Threewalls in Chicago, Roots and Culture in Chicago, The Mary and …
Danny Giles’ work concerns how we collectively construct culture, identity, and ideology and how these positions get expressed through visual culture and historical narratives. His objects and performances respond to these conditions through permutations and experiments with culturally loaded materials and social scenarios. He often utilizes the visual methods of consumer media, protest, and art historical tropes to address issues of political speech, visibility, difference, and the act of looking itself. Much of the artist’s work address the ways in which bodies, objects and spaces each perform to inform how we relate to each other and ourselves. According to the artist, “Art is where materiality, history and lived experience rub together and where memory, perception and language coalesce to form new meaning.” Giles’ work necessarily takes many forms as it meditates on the multiple and at times indeterminate platforms upon which identities are reproduced, commodified, and re-invented. His research examines and perverts the instruments of capitalism and engages subversive cultural practices that have developed historically as resistance to economic and social dispossession.
Giles has exhibited and performed at spaces including The Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, Smack Mellon in New York, Threewalls in Chicago, Roots and Culture in Chicago, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, and Fernwey Gallery in Chicago.
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