Speechless

Good Books is pleased to present Speechless, an exhibition by Louise Lawler. For her exhibition Louise Lawler presents, among other works and selected ephemera, five prints of Egg and Gun (distorted for the times, speechless), 2008/2018, from an edition of 12. A new wrapping paper patterned from the artwork has been produced with Good Books. Egg and Gun (distorted for the times, speechless), 2008/2018 was distorted from Egg and Gun, 2008. That photograph was first presented at Metro Pictures in 2008 for the exhibition Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other. For Speechless, Lawler has invited William Wiebe to produce a text alongside the exhibition, which is presented in two formats, in the exhibition and on the vitrine window. That text was distorted from the press release for Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other by reordering its words according to the importance ranking of a large language model, the technical architecture behind chatbots and many other artificial intelligence systems. Louise Lawler (b. 1947, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Solo exhibitions include Why Pictures Now (MoMA, New York, 2017), Adjusted (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2013), Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back) (Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 2006) and Louise Lawler and Others (Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2004). Selected group exhibitions include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; MoMA, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; MUMOK, Vienna; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Museum, New York, which additionally featured the artist in its 1991, 2000, and 2008 biennials. Her work was also included in the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2022). William Wiebe is an artist based in New York and the director of Emmelines, a gallery located at the 5th Ave & 53rd St MTA Station. Special thanks to Sprüth Magers and Kenneth Pietrobono.