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Adam Putnam has erected a gritty concrete obelisk that casts its shadow into the vortices of four projected corridors. These interiors mine the archives of personal memory and collective imagination. The familiar form of a monument is relocated to a non-place or vacuum of the cognitive traces one has left behind. Unwittingly, shared architectural geometries-rounded angles, sharp thresholds, checkerboard floors, and generic wallpaper patterns-are sites of distinct physical contact and an intimate part of growing up. Presence and absence are relative where the outside of bodies meet the inside of rooms.
Adam Putnam (b. 1973) exhibited at Taxter & Spengemann in New York this spring and has exhibited at Andrew Kreps in New York, and Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles. His work can currently be seen in Between the Two Deaths at ZKM, Karlsruhe. Previous group exhibitions include: The Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, Mitchell-Innes & ash, New York; Uncertain States of America, The Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Oslo, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and Serpentine Gallery, London; Plain of Heaven, Creative Time and Friends of the Highline, New York. Putnam received his MFA from Yale University in 2000 and his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1995. He lives and works in New York.
This exhibition is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1 Chief Curatorial Advisor and Chief Curator, Department of Media, The Museum of Modern Art.
International and National Projects are supported in part by The Jerome Foundation.
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