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It's nice to see a PR admit an artists animist beliefs others attempt camouflaging with the rhetoric of conceptual art or vague reference to philosophic trends. The trend for dancing in front of paintings - of many Ei Arakawa, Otto Knapp, Lutz-Kinoy, et. al. - achieves a clarity here in totemizing and activating the brand beneath simply by its proximal highlighting, ostensibly Lowe's. But animism is a pube hair distinct from some post-Baudrillard product fetishism, see: Merlin Carpenter at MD72, and this exhibitions stark lack of paintings can't help but feel in reaction to the artist's unfortunate market darlingship (a google search page full of auction results and artrank's most collectible artist sub 100k - things only taken seriously by those who take them seriously) and statements in market reports like: "“His work is something to live with and not worry about because the quality is so apparent,” says Schachter who bought one of Garber-Maikovska’s works from a friend and promptly put it in storage." So the performance continues for those paintings unseen, an incantation to conjure critical reception and not market reports, a "language in a state of emergence" to quote Tumlir.
See too: Merlin Carpenter at MD 72
