Æmen Ededéen, Acausal Decoupling in Midnight's Jalopy (after Dubuffet), 2025

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mixed media with glass beads on canvas and burlap

167.6 x 193 cm
66 x 76 in

In his solo booth and first presentation with the gallery, Æmen Ededéen (Joshua Hagler) stages an ongoing artistic project titled the Glass Dream Game. Fusing references from every subject, ranging from art history to philosophy, religion, and science, fiction and poetry from the artist’s personal library, each work in the series is an enigmatic and layered reflection on the relations between human erudition, memory and lived experience.

The title of the project references Hermann Hesse’s renowned novel The Glass Bead Game, in which the players exercise their in-depth scholarship to unearth elegant associations across the breadth of human knowledge. Begun in 2024, Ededéen’s Glass Dream Game follows a process that shifts between chance and deliberation, resulting in complex dream-like compositions. In each painting, the artist considers six images or texts from specific pages in his book library selected by means of an ancient divination practice I Ching. Echoing the idea that a personal library can function as a kind of portrait and reveal much about one’s experience, the Glass Dream Game is both an exercise in self-reflection and in divining the connections between disparate disciplines and images.

In Acausal Decoupling in Midnight's Jalopy (after Dubuffet), 2025, references to Jean Dubuffet's iconic work, Francis Bacon's portraits, and texts by Svetlana Boym and John Perkins, overlap and metamorphose into a dynamic composition at once imbued with humour and a meditation on the human condition.

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Æmen Ededéen United States, b. 1979

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