Frankie Rice
Akilah Townsend
Every Star, 2022
Archival pigment print
16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Edition of 10
Tommy Kha
Buchead (V), 2018
Tintype
5 x 4 in (12.7 x 10.16 cm)
Unique
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
John Waters (left), Hannah La Follette Ryan (right).
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
John Waters
21 Pasolini Pimples, 2006
21 Uniquely cut C-prints Framed
35 1/2 x 35 1/2 in
Edition of 5
Frankie Rice (left), Tommy Kha (right).
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Hannah La Follette Ryan
Subwayhands no. 1117, 2018
Inkjet print
10 x 12.5 in (25.4 x 31.75 cm)
Edition of 3
Aneta Bartos
Triptych IV, 2021
28.50 x 50 in (72.39 x 127 cm)
Archival inkjet print
Edition of 5
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Barbara Ess
AC [Shut-In Series], 2018-2019
Archival pigment print
19 7/8 x 26 6/8 in (50.48 x 67.96 cm)
Edition 1 of 4
Sarah Palmer
Certain Obscure Things, 2018
Dye-Sublimation Print on Aluminum
22 1/2 x 15 in (57.1 x 38.1 cm)
Edition of 3
Sarah Palmer
Certain Obscure Things, 2018
Dye-Sublimation Print on Aluminum
22 1/2 x 15 in (57.1 x 38.1 cm)
Edition of 3
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Yamamoto Masao
Untitled #1633 (from Kawa = Flow), 2014
Gelatin silver print
9 x 7.3 in (22.86 x 18.54 cm)
Edition of 20
Sarah Palmer
Certain Obscure Things, 2018
Dye-Sublimation Print on Aluminum
22 1/2 x 15 in (57.1 x 38.1 cm)
Edition of 3
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Sasha Phyars-Burgess
16 (Ms. Sharon, July 4th, Family Friends), Austin, Chicago, 2019
4 x 5 Film scan inkjet printing
34 x 27 in (86.36 x 68.58 cm)
Edition of 5
John Waters (left), Hannah La Follette Ryan (middle), Aneta Bartos, (right).
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Armando Nin
(Capitán Planeta), 2016
C-print
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Edition of 2
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Gus Van Sant
Ash Three, 2010
Digital pigment print
8.25 x 11.5 in (20.6 x 29.21 cm)
Relentless Melt. March 5 - March 26, 2022. LAUNCH F18, New York
Ben Renert
Untitled, 2022, 2022
C-print
11 x 14 in (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Edition of 2
All photographs are memento Mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
- Susan Sontag
LAUNCH F18 is delighted to present a new group exhibition focusing on a selection of contemporary artists working in photography today. Relentless Melt opens on Saturday, March 5, 2022 and remains on view through March 26, 2022. This exhibition will also be accompanied by a special online viewing room. Relentless Melt includes works by Aneta Bartos, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Barbara Ess, Tommy Kha, Yamamoto Masao, Armando Nin, Sarah Palmer, Ben Renert, Frankie Rice, Hannah La Follette Ryan, Gus Van Sant , Akilah Townsend and John Waters.
Since its invention in the 1800’s, to the common accessibility in the 1900’s, followed by its undeniable explosion in the early 2000’s, photography is truly unlike any other form of art. It has the unique ability to straddle the line between documentation and what one might consider traditional higher art, and functions with a multitude of purposes. Today we live in a world where our very lives are constructed around the documentation of almost every moment, and shared immediately, with at times profound impact.
Today, there is a saturation of images like we’ve never experienced before in history, and yet the excitement and intrigue still exists within the medium today. Relentless Melt seeks to reflect and offer a visual catalog as well as a celebration of artists who continue to explore the frozen image. By including portraiture, collage, landscape, and street photography this canon of works illustrates the importance of creating a physical space to highlight the art of seeing in an intimate setting. By closely examining these ideas, with deep inspiration from Frederick Douglass to Susan Songtag, Relentless Melt captures a contemporary presentation of the way the medium has evolved over multiple generations.
Throughout history photography has been a means to capture accurate representation, but furthermore nurture humankind’s natural attraction to what Fredrick Douglas referred to as “picture-appreciating.” Throughout the works contributed from these eleven exhibiting artists, Relentless Melt shares a window into the current conversation of contemporary photography. With this assortment of photographs, we pause briefly to hold a small mirror up and look broadly at this remarkable, and increasingly powerful medium.
For more information, or a preview of this exhibition please email us at: info@launchf18.com
LAUNCH F18 is presenting a new group exhibition focusing on a selection of contemporary artists working in photography today. Relentless Melt opened on Saturday, March 5, 2022 and remains on view through March 26, 2022.