We are pleased to announce a two-person exhibition with New York-based artists Eric Angles and Matt Sheridan Smith, curated by Arnd Seibert. The exhibition includes seven individual works, one collaborative work, and two short texts collected by the artists.

Eric Angles will show four works from his ongoing series of “open editions.” The extent of production of each work is determined solely by demand. Open edition eQX consists of a wire newspaper stand filled with seemingly blank broadsheets. Each sheet of newsprint was in fact run through a printing press with empty plates, collecting only mechanical artifacts and the occasional remain from a previous print run.

These open editions are only sold according to formulas matched to particular exhibition contexts. Another work by Angles, open edition 2RN, makes the availability and prices of the pieces on display a function of the calendar date. Individual newspapers, however, are always free for the taking.

The work of Matt Sheridan Smith parses out relationships between content, authorial control, and a prescribed form. His practice often revolves around internal or random processes that seemingly produce their own content, or that let external conditions delimit, reconfigure, or even negate any implicit or intended meaning. In his film Untitled, an image of falling snow evocative of television static is subtitled by an online text generator that assembles incoherent blocks of words drawn from Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Two random noises attempt to cohere into poetic result.

Untitled (Congratulations) generates sculptural form from external conventions. The work consists of a grid of 38 glass vases, one for each day of the exhibition. Each day an identical bouquet will be delivered and placed in the next adjacent vase. Over the course of the show, the work will complete and decay simultaneously, deferring the arrival of a “finished” work and allowing the temporal and literal parameters of an exhibition to become both the content and the object of the piece.