Lewis Koch
Madison, Wisconsin
Hostile Takeover, 11.08.16
Photography

This piece is comprised of photographs of five letters—disguised and undisclosed—which were seen on a Trump building under construction in Vancouver. It was not long before Election Day in 2016. That November, a simulacrum of politics triumphed, and with it, the rebranding and monetizing of public space. Welcome to America, Inc. When this work was first installed, the Trump regime was in its infancy and much on my mind. It still is. These are serious times and will likely only get more so. This installation attempts to respond to an overwhelming sense of dread, while at the same time participating in the public discourse in some creative way.

Bio
Drawing upon aspects of photography, sculpture, assemblage and text, Lewis Koch calls attention to the often unremarked upon elements of everyday life. Over the past 35 years, his work has been shown in garages, on kiosks and billboards, as well as in museums and galleries, with solo exhibitions in New York, London, Brussels, Seoul, Toronto, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His work is in permanent collections throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Museum for Fotokunst/Brandts (Odense), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago).

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