Ron Laboray (US, 1970)

Ron Laboray presents a multisensory meditation on disappearance as both cultural condition and perceptual phenomenon dealing with the instability of cultural values and codes, and the influence of dominant paradigms which tend to categorize and cancel what is not compliant. His 2D works enact—somewhere between playful and rigorous—collisions and overlaps of different systems of meaning: from Western scientific classification to mythological imagery, from pop music iconography to indigenous identity, blending the national flower of Nauru, a medieval mermaid, and the album cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. The installation continues in a video playlist of Little Richard’s Almanac, the collective composed by him and Niki Elliott, which realised the video clips with bands of the global counterculture, preserving and amplifying what commercial systems attempt to displace. In an era defined by disappearance, the act of preservation is inherently political.

Ron Laboray (US, 1970) is a US-based artist. He has shown at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Pacific Design Center and Raid Projects in Los Angeles, in Chicago at the Suburban, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.

https://www.ronlaboray.com
https://www.littlerichardsalmanac.com