Signs of Autumn

2022-24

Exhibited at:

Rivalry Projects, September 2023
NADA, New York (Rivalry Projects), May 2024

“Produced largely while in residence at Light Work in the summer of 2022, the works in Signs of Autumn offer a complex meditation on America’s transition from an industrial to a financialized economy and its effect on the instability of our current social, political, and economic moment. The photographs capture objects found in thrift stores or on the street, books that informed his thinking about the work, movies and other recognizable cultural detritus, and documentation of Alvarez-Perez’s everyday. They exist as assemblage, as riddle-filled mind maps on America’s evolution, and how this shift has appeared in art, politics, and material culture, and, moreover, how it has appeared locally in Buffalo, New York, a city whose image is lashed to world currents far beyond its control.” — Rivalry Projects Press Release