Ordinary Disasters, Critical Mass

Charlotte Zhang & Tania Colette B.

“Ordinary Disasters, Critical Mass,” a two person show featuring new works by Charlotte Zhang and Tania Colette B. about fortification, barricades, hostile architecture, protest, and “public space” in Los Angeles and the lack thereof. Using the stuff of buildings, like wood, metal, and concrete, B. and Zhang create a landscape of works in defense of social resistance movements and in critique of the city’s war on unhoused people. Zhang’s sculptures utilize bus bench dividers, which are used to deter people from resting or sleeping on these benches; to make these works the armrests, or dividers of bus benches have been removed, rendering them no longer hostile. B. utilizes found and made construction materials to create referential sculptures informed by improvisational structures and protest barricades.