Soft Systems is pleased to present Materials and Processes for an Expanding World, a group exhibition featuring works on paper, ephemera, and video. Building on traditions of mail art, the exhibition invited contributors to send small, unfinished works through the mail to Plot in LA.  

Exhibition Statement:

Tectonic plates shift beneath the ocean, signals shoot across seas, ideas leap from head to head, era to era. Everything that blooms eventually deflates; heat cools down, stars faint, waves roll back to the sea.

Art’s the same. Sometimes it cracks, sometimes it’s quiet. Ideas appear, then disappear. Concepts grow, then peel away. Meaning changes shape but still leaves a trace behind.

Materials and Processes for an Expanding World reflects the ways artists create their own universes through movement, experiment, and intentional accidents. What’s inside the exhibition? Performances, unfinished works, temporary objects, sketches, doodles, notes, observations, and everyday things that might seem unimportant yet hold small universes within them.

Contributions From: 
Brigid O’Neil, Noelle Whitaker, Ika Pearl, Jiayun Chen, Madeleine Soich, Lara DiBlasio, Yusuf Shamma, Margaret Oakley, D. Wibowo, Y. Waffle, Alkaid Ramirez, Bz Zhang, olivier, Jules Garder, Araceli Zuniga, Daniel Milanese, Zoey Solomon, Yi Cynthia Chen, Vivien Adamian, Drew Villanueva, Se Young Au, Sonya Bogdanova, Luciana Varkulja, Mae Bishop, Zhizi Wu, Beck Corrigan, Austin Reilly, Adehle Daley, G. Laster, György Galántai (Courtesy of Artpool). 

Video Works From:
TAITAIxTina, Leah Sandler, Zoey Solomon, Noelle Whitaker, Vanessa Norton, Hypothetical Star, Wonderful Cringe, Anabelle Lee Dehm, Parham Ghalamdar