Jill Magid: Failed States
January 14 through March 4, 2012
In 2010, 24-year-old Fausto Cardenas fired six shots from a handgun into the air from the steps of the Texas State Capitol. Coincidentally, NY artist Jill Magid was present as a witness, and mines the coincidence for her performative exhibition, drawing connections between Fausto’s futile and tragic act and Goethe’s nineteenth-century epic poem, Faust. In conjunction with the show at Arthouse, Magid’s armored family car will be parked near the Texas Capitol, and she will publish something in the February issue of the Texas Observer.
