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[_] Anonymous 05/13/24(Mon)22:18:10 No.3507703
>> [_] Anonymous 05/14/24(Tue)01:26:23 No.3507710
I'm sure this gets posted all the time or whatever, but I haven't been here in ages and this is
the first thing I saw, gyattdamn. the howl for carl solomon of flash
>> [_] Anonymous 05/15/24(Wed)15:08:12 No.3507753
It doesn't have to be this way.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/24(Thu)00:21:22 No.3507770
As Rafman has gravitated towards extreme internet phenomena, the utopian sublime of his earlier
work, characterized by outward exploration into the promising expanse of new virtual territory,
has shaded into a more dystopian sublime, plumbing psychological depths rather than geographic
space. In a series of videos including Still Life (Betamale) (2013), Mainsqueeze (2014), and his
new Erysichthon (2015), Rafman has trawled the message-boards, forums, and video channels of the
deep web to create disorienting and often difficult-to-stomach collages of deviant imagery. In
this exhibition, Still Life (Betamale) and Mainsqueeze are both presented within a blue vinyl
“pit couch” installation reminiscent of viewing architecture that Ryan Trecartin has used to
display his videos – which makes sense, given that both artists aim to give form to the sometimes
pathological mutations of selves squeezed through digital networks.
