Chris Esposito translates materials from the streets of his native New York City into hybrid objects; part cultural readymade, part anti-aesthetic provocation, and part post-consumerist situation. Elements of the everyday urban encounter are extracted and re-composed to reflect the artist’s inquiries into forms of palimpsest. Works reveal everyday structure and form as society’s common denominator while exemplifying our culture of inclusion and exclusion. Once laid bare and re-combined, the vernacular inherent in these everyday materials breaks down class and culture barriers. In this, Esposito does his part to expose these cycles of expansion and decay, hope and despair in work symbolically confronting political confinement and the reinforcement of ideology that fuels these endless cycles.
Pulling from Malevich’s stripped down symbolism, the IRWIN Group’s cultural commentary, and Situationist theory, Esposito exhibits a fervent message on the communicability of form to transcend cultural boundaries and disrupt the cycles of production and destruction.
