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We've come a long way bb’s. But let’s keep going, to a place that is simultaneously fourteen billion years ago and right now. Here you will find chaos—in the cosmos as well as in your cup of coffee. Cosmological caffeinated chaos. And chaos is what brings us to the level of the mark. What’s your mark? I want my coffee Half-Caff not Decaf. Actually make that a Half-Caff Nonfat Macchiato, Sugar-Free, 2 Percent Foam At 120 Degrees. Control the chaos bb’s.

Look inside, there is sludge. Meaning sludge.

A whole generation of so-called of apolitical persons. 9/11, 9/12, 9/13,000 B.C. And place your thoughts on Syria. Where written language emerged. Levant where the sun rises, and Tiwanaku where it sets. And Cairo where Baby Mars would eventually be victorious.

Origins as observed by the universe Origins as observed by rocks Rocks as observing each other

Critical theory, Marxist theory, conspiracy theory, the bow-wow theory, the pooh-pooh theory, the ding-dong theory, the yo-he-ho theory, the ta-ta theory, Word decrement, Jamais vu, Semantic satiation.

How far can one zoom in or out.

When every thing is photographed, every piece of information captured, every stone turned around, will we really know more then? Can the search for answers out there answer the questions that come from inside? What is your next big thing? Big idea, big data? What's your next missing Malaysian airplane theory?

Comic relief: "Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy." - Louis CK

So what then of the Cargo Cults. To hell with references.

A mark such as the drawing of a line, the setting of a boundary stone, or the urine of feces of an animal, is a symbolic marker that delineates this from that. This is this, this is not that. The mark is simply a placard, a sign, a gesture (human and non-human) that aims to hold still and organize the forces of chaos. It’s not just a 2 Percent Foam, Nonfat Chai Latte, Extra Hot, it’s a nod to that which holds the whole universe together, at least long enough to froth your foam.

I am a Bowerbird making a blue nest; I am not a puppy frolicking in the garden.

Grand Century presents an inaugural group exhibition on marking, chaos, and meaning; on expressivity and its migration from the internal to the external; and perhaps even on terror and Mars the victorious.

installation view

left to right

Sandra Vaka Olsen

Sunscreenpill, 2013

c-print with sunlotion, plexi frame

Sunshield, 2014

c-print with sunlotion, plexi frame

Phillip Zach

Where is Love? (Does it fall from skies above?), 2013

foam, uv direct print

left to right

Sandra Vaka Olsen

Sunscreenpill, 2013

c-print with sunlotion, plexi frame

Sunshield, 2014

c-print with sunlotion, plexi frame

Phillip Zach

left to right

Where is Love? (Does it fall from skies above?), 2013

foam, uv direct print

Curiosity, 2013

foam, uv direct print

Phillip Zach

Where is Love? (Does it fall from skies above?), 2013

foam, uv direct print

left to right

Tor Erik Bøe

Untitled (centuries, selfies, etc.), 2014

digital video

Karen Gimle

140.000, 2014

digital print on hoodie

Phillip Zach

Dust, 2013

foam, uv direct print

Ashes, 2013

foam, uv direct print

Renaud Jerez

Final Fantasy, 2012

transfered inkjet prints, acrylic, ball-point pen on ghillie suit

Phillip Zach

Dust, 2013

foam, uv direct print

Renaud Jerez

Final Fantasy, 2012

transfered inkjet prints, acrylic, ball-point pen on ghillie suit

instalation view

Ida Eritsland

Introducing, 2014

self-adhesive vinyl on wall

Kareem Lofty

untitled, 2014

computer knitted fabric

Christopher Kulendran Thomas

From the ongoing work http://www.when-platitudes-become-form.lk/, 2013

wood, acrylic, Nike New Distance singlet (blue/volt/reflective) and 'Lion' (2012) by Prageeth Manohansa (purchased from Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Christopher Kulendran Thomas

From the ongoing work http://www.when-platitudes-become-form.lk/, 2013

wood, acrylic, Nike Pro Combat compression shirt and 'Ganesh XII' (2010) by Prageeth Manohansa (purchased from Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Ilja Karilampi

Om man ser det för vad det är så uppstår rätt många goa frågor, 2014

self-adhesive vinyl, gold perspex mirror

Ilja Karilampi

detail

Anders Dahl Monsen

Keep Rising, 2014

steel

Tarik H. Hindic

How do we, communally, gather all this light, 2014

sound on speaker

Images courtesy of Grand Century / All Photographs by Luke Libera Moore

The exhibition is supported in part by the Norwegian Consulate General in New York.