Altman Siegel, San Francisco, 2018:

Altman Siegel is pleased to present The Mediated Image, an exhibition including work by Simon Denny, Laeh Glenn and Christopher Williams. The artists in the exhibition facilitate images with varying methods, examining infrastructures including cyberspace, technology and advertising to reflect present relationship models and their role shaping global culture. While Simon Denny and Laeh Glenn conceptually organize their work through a consideration of post-internet imagery, Williams engages the history of photography and the politics of display. Like Denny and Glenn, Williams mirrors the structures of his chosen medium in conversation with his subjects, drawing attention toward image production and dissemination. Exuding a mediated stillness and once-removed disposition, Williams’ work remains highly influential in its intuitive formal qualities—similarities shared with a younger generation of artists across disparate mediums.

Simon Denny mines our global tech industry, incorporating the visual language, mentality and ideologies of this expansive economy into multilayered installations. For this exhibition, Denny presents two sculptures he made for his recent show at the Serpentine; deconstructed models of the new Apple headquarters (made before the building was erected) as conceptual paradigms of tech utopia. A third sculpture is the first work Denny made from an ongoing series involving blockchain and cryptocurrency. Incorporating elements of the decentralized database in dialogue with competitive gaming signage, the sculpture reimagines political and geographical states through a language of consumer culture.