CURATED: GRETCHEN ANDREW


Upon hacking the Frieze Art Fair in 2019 Gretchen was catapulted to art world notoriety with international coverage, solo museum exhibitions, prestigious residences, and major acquisitions. She made her first Vision Boards in 2020 as part gazell.io and had subsequent solo exhibitions in California, London, Austria, Germany, and Dubai.

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Physical artworks so powerful they hacked the art world: Vision Boards reclaim the internet as a forward-thinking tool of possibility. The internet can be seen as a global subconscious, and, much like our own subconscious, it cannot tell the difference between a hoped-for future intensely imagined through art and what has, in fact, already occurred. This is because the internet cannot parse desire. To parse is to divide into parts and identify the parts’ relations with each other. When humans read, "Gretchen is really hoping that someday her work is on the cover of Artforum," it is understood that the relationship between Gretchen and the object of her desire to be one of separation. By contrast, the internet essentially understands only that Gretchen is “relevant” to the cover of Artforum. Now when anyone, anywhere in the world Googles COVER OF ARTFORUM her vision boards appear as top search results. Artificial Intelligence is inherently backward-looking and susceptible to being reprogrammed through knowledge of the internet’s structure. Gretchen exploits it, rewriting our sense of political possibility by using a search engine’s own rules and limitations against itself.

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