Play It As It Lays

A companion publication to the exhibition, Play It As It Lays, curated by Kristian Vistrup Madesen at Charim, Vienna, in the context of Curated By in 2024.

“Play It As It Lays takes its name from Joan Didion’s 1970 novel about late 20th century nihilism, a nihilism of surfeit and ennui. It is a revisitation upon the aftermath of the sixties, that great schism in culture, that sees not – or not only – youthful force, progressivism and unrepression, but confusion, restlessness, melancholy. An empty centre.”
—from the exhibition PR