Stacks of neon orange suitcases, open trunks with mirrored insides and brightly hued work beckon from Superposition Gallery’s stand at Frieze Los Angeles—among the many most eye-catching within the truthful’s Focus part. The set up, by the native artist Greg Ito, is titled A Cautionary Story. Ito says he would really like guests to learn their very own cautionary story into the work. “Everyone has an uncertainty or a hassle of their life that they’re going through,” he tells The Artwork Newspaper. “And I really feel like all people has some raised consciousness of the present state of issues on this planet and what their place in it’s.”
The stand additionally references the Japanese American artist’s private household historical past. In the course of the Second World Conflict, Ito’s grandparents and great-grandparents had been pressured to relocate to internment camps. They needed to promote their properties and companies in a rush and will solely carry a suitcase or a trunk with them.
In truth, Ito’s set up was impressed by a trunk his grandmother left behind and that was later utilized by his mother and father. “I’m utilizing the Japanese American story as a supply gadget,” Ito says. “It’s a manner for me to point out all of us have histories inside our household. All of us have related tales of displacement, of hardship, but additionally of success and development. It’s very built-in into the human situation.”
Ito’s set up makes use of shiny colors as a result of “they’re warning colors”, he says. “Purple and yellow are presupposed to make you conscious of your environment. Don’t hit this factor. Don’t go this manner. You must cease.”
In the meantime, his work are small rays of hope—depictions of a burning candle, a campfire lamp, a ship in a bottle. “We are able to’t let the doom and gloom of life put us in a headlock,” he says.
On the finish of opening day, Superposition had bought a number of works on the stand—together with sculptures for costs between $12,500 and $13,500 every and three work for $8,000 every.
