Code Read

• Fri, Apr 18, 2025 - Sat, Jun 14, 2025  9am - 5pm On view

Artist Lovie Olivia engages a culturally abundant and generous archive to produce a mini installation of collages and objects for this year's Texas Biennial. An experimental take on a larger project happening later this year as part of a solo exhibition, Code Read sounds the alarm and serves as an amplifier for the artist's interests in multiple contemporary concerns -- from banned books to the attempted erasure of entire human histories and other social, political and environmental crises fighting for attention.

Olivia extracts “objet trouve”, clinical and didactic materials from their resting places integrating them into contemporary works of art, arranged to create new interpretations and curiosities for the viewer. These works aim to be immersive, delicate impulses that address this historical moment of recovery, re-memory and reclamation.

The installation is on view at TANK Space, in Spring Street Studios, and is viewable from 9:00am - 5:00pm Monday through Saturday from April 18 through June 14.