Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Oli Sorenson: Vidéo Pistoletto
Text by Marsha Taichman
Oli Sorenson’s practice is cerebral and concept-based while being visually appealing and speaking to present-day issues. He presents us with discrete works that are put into dialogue. He uses different mediums to convey how insidious and sinister commodity culture truly is, and also to demonstrate what we leave behind long after we are gone.
Video Pistoletto (2014-2018) examines the Arte Povera movement through a contemporary lens. The founder of the movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto, did performances that involved breaking mirrors, and Sorenson’s video gestures to this when he shatters LCD screens with a hammer and chisel, the pieces spraying while still displaying video signals. Like Arte Povera, the media is rendered impotent and cannot be used as it was originally intended. It has been impoverished. Yet these damaged goods become new, tangible (if dysfunctional) objects.
