The Wasserman Kids
Rosa Aiello, Gina Folly, Patrick Goddard, Marco Pio Mucci, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Matteo Pomati
Organized by Attila Fattori Franchini
Devised by Sgomento
Based on a story written by Sam Korman
March 6 - April 18, 2020
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Opening reception March 6 from 6-9pm
2831 Mission St, San Francisco
Et Al, San Francisco
“800 dollars? 800 dollars and they’re not even real?” Said Mr. Wasserman. “I can’t believe this. My kid spent 800 dollars on fake shoes.” He paused for a moment and surveyed his three kids arrayed on the couch. “And don’t think you two are off the hook. I’m sure you’re in on this, too.”
Sam Korman, The Wasserman Kids
The Wasserman Kids is an exercise in deconstruction. It can be seen as an exhibition in the form of an illustrated book. Or maybe, an illustrated book in the form of an exhibition, or something in between.
Interested in hybrid forms and generative possibilities, curator Attilia Fattori Franchini and the publishing duo SGOMENTO have set a series of fixed starting points to respond to: San Francisco, the tech-industry, gaming culture, the SF Cartoon Museum, urban flaneuring and the Ashcan School of painting, to explore a certain tension between representation and the represented. How do we recognize reality from its replica? Do we feel empathy in the virtual?
Sam Korman, has written a narrative text in response to these points and in parallel, six artists were asked to illustrate the text in free form. The time frame of these passages is mixed, leaving both contributions as equal companions. One expanding the other, against interpretation. The text can be seen as a script, a theatrical screenplay, the artistic contributions as visual punctuations or flashing moments of consciousness. The book is conceived here as a form in potentiality. A dissected body happy in its unique parts. The Wasserman Kids stands as an experiment in imagination, language and artistic production. An invite to envisage possibilities. Maybe one day we’ll make a book.