Seven contemporary artists build upon Mike Kelley’s titular concept, producing works that comment on lived experience within built environments
Nonmemory brings together works by Mike Kelley and a group of artists―Kelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raśl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Lauren Halsey and Max Hooper Schneider―whose work similarly engages Kelley’s titular concept: the ‘non-memory’ of the various institutional spaces or built environments he encountered in his life. Documenting the eponymous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles in 2023–24, the book also features reproductions of important works by Kelley, his foundational essay, ‘Architectural Non-memory Replaced with Psychic Reality,’ conversations with each artist, and a new text by exhibition curator and editor of the publication Jay Ezra Nayssan.