Group Exhibition
6 June–9 August 2024

Wayne Gonzales and Jim Hodges feature in ‘The Swimmer’

FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

Wayne Gonzales and Jim Hodges feature in The Swimmer, an expansive group exhibition at The FLAG Art Foundation inspired by John Cheever’s 1964 short story of the same title. 

The exhibition confuses time and unfolds through a series of disappearances in bodies of water—in pools, lakes, and oceans—through works that concern loss and losing oneself. Navigating themes inherent in The Swimmer and Cheever’s book, including alcoholism, grandiosity, loss of innocence, selective memory, privilege and sexuality, the exhibition trains an eye to the crumbling of an American dream, set against the glittering backdrop of a string of swimming pools.

The ninth floor of the exhibition features a variety of painting, photography, and sculpture in which the body is suggested, but not depicted, positioning the viewer as the “swimmer” in space.  The exhibition’s tenth floor focuses almost exclusively on the figure—the body in water—and explores night swimming, using the pool as an intimate, self-contained site for mystery and experimentation.

Artists include Wayne Gonzales, Jim Hodges, Henni AlftanLeonard BabyConrad BakkerBurt BarrDike BlairMartin BoyceKatherine BradfordVija CelminsZoe CrosherNancy DiamondElmgreen & DragsetTony FeherRobert GoberReggie Burrows HodgesLudovic KnothAmy ParkJack PiersonAlessandro RahoEd RuschaMelanie SchiffCindy ShermanCynthia TalmadgeDeanna TempletonPaul ThekStephen Truax, and others.

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