June 13th 4-7pm open through July 3rd

This is Lola Reed's debut solo exhibition with Good Mother Studio in which she traces the quiet violence of a culture that has learned to treat living flesh the way it treats everything else: as raw material to be refined, marketed, and eventually replaced. The works gathered here ask us to consider how deeply commerce has burrowed into the most intimate territory we have: our own forms.

Our body, the artist reminds us, is never left alone. If everything is a commodity, the living form is no exception. If everything is easily reproduced and digested, will humanity exist on the margins as a vessel for product and desire? 

What makes Lola Reed's perspective distinctive is the turn inward. It's not just the outside forces of advertising, media, and the medical-industrial complex disciplining this constant regeneration. The dogma has been so thoroughly absorbed that we surveil and correct ourselves, chasing rewards we can feel in our bodies: the dopamine hit of approval, the pleasure of compliance. We have become both the product and its most loyal consumer.

The bodily commodity is perpetuated by the surveillance of forms, the internal panopticon. Sweet dopamine pleasures that break down the barriers of flesh and indulgence. The absent referent in the makeup of our forms becomes product. We know but must not say. 

Bark and you might miss it.