Paranoid Style

14 Mar-12 Apr 2025

PV 13 Mar 2025, 6-8pm

Overview

Josh Lilley is proud to present Paranoid Style, a group exhibition of four Los Angeles-based artists exploring interconnectivity through abstraction, evasion and adaptation.

The exhibition’s title refers to the influential essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics by historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in Harper’s Magazine in 1964 and a keystone text in the mapping of conspiracy theory and ‘movements of suspicious discontent’ within the western psyche. Looking beyond the contemporary political echoes of Hofstadter’s text, the exhibition explores the socio-analytical potential of art in a post-truth, hyper-individualist society, revealing the consequential subversion of absolutism from both the left and right. Collectively, the four practices of Nehemiah Cisneros, Jacob Fenton, Salim Green and Sula Bermudez-Silverman initiate a dialogue grounded in the lore of LA, extrapolating it out into the wider United States and beyond.