Adam Pendleton's 'who owns geometry anyway?' Debuts New Furniture Forms at Friedman Benda

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Friedman Benda's New York gallery has been reconfigured into a conceptual arena for Adam Pendleton's latest exhibition, 'who owns geometry anyway?'. The artist, known for his interdisciplinary work that interrogates cultural histories, presents a new series of furniture that questions the conventions of design and ownership.These pieces—chairs, tables, and shelves—are treated as sculptural investigations, their sharp geometric lines and intersecting planes challenging the distinction between functional object and pure art. Pendleton draws from a rich archive of influences, including minimalist aesthetics and Black visual culture, to probe the cultural assumptions embedded in geometric forms.This body of work extends the critical dialogue of his previous projects, such as 'Black Dada', into the realm of the domestic, suggesting that the structures that define our spaces are inherently political. The exhibition positions these furniture typologies not as passive items, but as active participants in a conversation about power, history, and the very language of form itself.

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