Plan: B. The title itself suggests an alternate course of action, or fanciful reaction to the current state of world affairs. Garcia creates a visual world where fantastical counter organizations, not dissimilar to exaggerated factions of our own society, pollute and conspire, battle and breed.
Plan: B
In Camille Rose Garcia's newest exhibition entitled Plan: B, the title
itself suggests an alternate course of action, or fanciful reaction to the
current state of world affairs. With cutting, and often times humorous
narrative, Garcia creates a visual world where fantastical counter
organizations, not dissimilar to exaggerated factions of our own society,
pollute and conspire, battle and breed. In Garcia's world:
Plan: B is what happens when Plan A, our over-populated, over-consuming way
of life known as Western Society, stops working. Plan: B is an elaborate
escape and survival plan devised by three separatist factions when western
society collapses. The Royal Disorder; the elitist prisoners of denial and
fantasy who float around in ball gowns swallowing apathy elixirs. The
Orphaned Nihilist Society; the part- doomed existentialists, part-paranoid
militants who devise various escape shelters at the bottom of oceans and
inside of caves. And lastly, The Subterraneans; a pasty doomsday cult who
have been living underground for years, stockpiling and making preparations
to take over when society, as we know it, collapses.
Using symbolism and metaphor, Garcia critiques our current state of denial
about the environment, population, and military catastrophes which have
undeniable consequences for us all.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 8 Â11pm
Merry Karnowsky Gallery
170 South La Brea Avenue - Los Angeles