GALLERY TAKEOVER:
Abstract Land & Filing Co.
Friday, September 6
5 – 7pm
Candela Gallery is thrilled to announce a gallery takeover by Charlottesville, Virginia-based artist and community organizer Morgan Ashcom. Titled the Abstract Land & Filing Co. (ALFC), this exhibition will be Ashcom’s second at Candela, continuing to showcase his love for parafiction and collaboration.
Conceived as a fictional company, ALFC serves as a unique artistic repository for Ashcom's work, exploring the intersections of private property, big data, and industrial remnants. By utilizing discarded factory materials such as card trays, filing cabinets, and pocket frames, Ashcom blends archival images with contemporary photographs of the visible records and land management industries. The ALFC challenges and reconsiders the colonial notion that the power to describe equates to the power to control and invites new ways of imagining our relationships to one another.