Nathan Carter: Delta Echo Triple One Upper

In the project room:
Nick Relph & Oliver Payne: Gentlemen

November 15th-December 22nd
Opening reception: Saturday, November 15th @ 8pm

Sometimes, deep in the night, when you’re struggling
to stay up and alert but sleep has the better part of
you, apocryphal messages come in over the CB radio.
They’re merely snippets, like pieces of a shipwrecked
vessel that the current is dragging in, but they’re so
robust with possibility, with something narrative:

UNREGULATED LIGHTINING BOLT SHOWS
ODD SIZMOMETER READINGS
CHINESE POP MUSIC FROM A TOYOTA 4 RUNNER IN KABUL
PUT HORATIO ON THE HORN
MANIC WARSAW CONVENTION LECTURE
THE ELECTRIC CITY
ALPHA TANGO BRAVO DELTA NOVEMBER PAPA

Teetering between meaning and its opposite,
bouncing off the dark walls of your room, what choice
do you have, the mind as exalted as it is groggy, but
to weave an intricate puzzle out of these enigmatic
transmissions? What can you do but unfold these
encrypted tidbits into equally encrypted landscapes
and give physical form to the disembodied language at
the edges of our airwaves? Pure information becomes
territory, distilled pattern becomes geography.

For his show at LOCUST PROJECTS, Delta Echo
Triple One Upper, Nathan Carter will construct a
series of wall relief sculptures on site. Hybrids of
maps, circuit boards, ATC Radar displays, and
landscape models, Carter’s sculptures are
diagrammatical flows of information where nautical
maneuvers and communications, topographical qualities,
icons of national and organizational identities are
distilled into ambiguous scenarios and narratives.

In the project room, Nick Relph and Oliver Payne
will present their new video, Gentlemen. Ostensibly an
essay on public restrooms in London, the video is
really about how things are going to shit, how cities
are no longer interesting, how it is next to
impossible to keep homespun styles alive, and how we
yearn for all the beautiful things that have been
taken from us. Gentlemen is a biting song of apathy
and disillusionment and, perhaps unwittingly, of
resistance.

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This exhibition has been generously supported by:

LOCUST PROJECTS is sponsored, in part, by The Dade
Community Foundation with support of The Miami-Dade
County Dept of Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs
Council, The Mayor, and The Miami-Dade Board of County
Commissioners.