Ido Radon
SOCIETY
April 8 - May 20, 2023

Veronica presents SOCIETY, an exhibition by Ido Radon. Accompanying the exhibition is a zine also titled SOCIETY. The zine is produced for the exhibition by Radon and includes texts by Eleanor Ford, Sarv Iraji, Molly Erika Radon Kimball, Tim McCall, Kitt Peacock, Julia Trojanowski, Laurie White, and Ozan Yildiz. The zine is designed by Oskar Radon.

"We live in a society.”

So George protests. So the meme goes, and goes, twisting through the Joker's asociality, folding back in on itself like a Klein bottle, and finally dissolving/dissipating into everything and nothing. As a meme will.

"Everything happens so much. Because we live in a society." @theokardasis

In 1987, Margaret Thatcher infamously asserted there was no such thing.

20 years earlier, Guy DeBord's prescient diagnostic Society of the Spectacle was published. In 1974, DeBord made his first feature-length film, a black and white adaptation of the book.

Society. From the Latin societas, from the noun socius: comrade, friend, ally.

In the mass of beings in social relation, relations overdetermined by the real abstractions of capitalism, the people-to-come may already be here, failing but trying nonetheless to see things as they are and to live accordingly, which is to say trying to prototype, via the destituent gesture, new forms of life.

– Ido Radon

This exhibition is supported in part by 4Culture.

SOCIETY ZINE

A large sculpture made of black backpacks is hung on the wall. A black poster is attached to an open panel box. A black sculpture made of PC parts is mounted on another wall. A sculpture made of aluminum square tubes is hung in front of a window.

Two sculptures made of black PC parts are mounted on the wall.

A large sculpture made of black backpacks is hung on the wall. A sculpture made of aluminum square tubes is hung in front of a window. A black PC part in the shape of a standing shelf is on the floor, with a zine on top, and a stack of zines under it

A black sculpture made of PC parts is mounted on a wall. Eight prints with black and white patterns are mounted vertically on another wall.

A black sculpture made of PC parts is mounted on another wall. Eight prints with black and white patterns are mounted vertically on a wall.

Two prints are mounted vertically on a wall. They both have black and white patterns with faint rainbow coloring overlaid on top. — *SOS test, Frame 1.* (below) and SOS test, Frame 2. (above), 2023
Digital photo prints, each 5 x 7 inches

A large sculpture made of black backpacks is hung on the wall. — *Sail or Temporary composition of a specter of a world,* 2023
Mixed media, 138 x 47 x 2 inches

Detailed view of a large sculpture made of black backpacks is hung on the wall. — *Sail or Temporary composition of a specter of a world* (detail), 2023
Mixed media

A black sculpture made of PC parts is mounted on a wall. — *The labyrinthine basement under the snack bar, Figure 1.*, 2023
Mixed media, 48 x 55 x 14.25 inches

A black PC part in the shape of a standing shelf is on the floor, with a zine on top, and a stack of zines underneath it. — *SOCIETY,* 2023
Zine, first edition of 100, 11 x 8.5 x .25 inches

A black poster is attached to an open panel box. It reads, “Hang In There, Baby”. — *Hang in There, Baby,* 2023
Digital print, edition of 50, 17 x 12 inches

A sculpture made of aluminum square tubes is hung in front of a window. — *Gate or When there is an opening, there is an opening*, 2022
Mixed media, 123 x 103.5 x 1 inches

Exterior view of the gallery–a storefront with floor-to-ceiling windows. In the gallery, there are two PC sculptures and a textile sculpture mounted to the wall. An aluminum sculpture is hung in front of the window, and a poster on the panel box.