Welcome to the Dog Show
Francis Commeyne

MO_Space | Main Gallery
18 June – 17 July 2022

In a world that has gone mad, it does not take much effort to recognize how nonsensical our contemporary experience has become. The absurdity of human choice in a dystopian present is particularly concerning: politicians dictate how we live and die, corporations offer a "new normal" of an imagined "post-pandemic," and trolls tout ignorance as wonderful poetry. For his 4th solo show, “Welcome to the Dog Show” Francis Commeyne (b. 1988) produces a series of sculptures and mixed media assemblages of carved wood and found objects depicting the commonplace sausage as comically emblematic of expressing one's concerns of survival, questioning and responding to the turns of his own life and the conditions of art-making in the general state of modern worry.

–John Alexis Balaguer