Transforming the gallery space into a dark cloaked showroom, both photographers use artifice to examine the result of capitalist consumption - be it contending with the dreams we were sold or the decay of the things we’ve bought and forgotten. Mediation and fantasy are shifted from tactics of deception into tools for creating a better understanding of our dreamlike reality.

Through constructed sets, Crawley pictures the eventual death, decay, and rotting of everything we consume. Like landmarks from a forgotten time, overgrown beyond belief, objects are transformed by their decay. For PiLE, Crawley created six new works that each investigate the aftermath of overindulgence. PiLE is Crawley’s first two person exhibition in New York

Hickerson’s photographs imagine a space between the dream and the real, where anxieties and desires are made literal through sets saturated with kaleidoscopic color. Drawing inspiration from genre films and made for TV movies, Hickerson uses humor and horror to imagine the lives of the things we’ve tossed aside. Alongside Crawley, Hickerson will exhibit four works made over the last four years.

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“PiLE” — SPRING/BREAK Art Show — September 4th - 9th — 75 Varick Street, New York, NY — 2024