Make Room Los Angeles is presenting Office Illusions by Jacopo Pagin, on view now through December 17, 2024, marking the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Blurring the lines between myth and reality, Pagin explores the turn of the millennium, shaped by a seductive vision of endless progress and control.
In his series of large-scale paintings, the artist immerses viewers in distorted office landscapes filled with desks, computers and pens. Stark and sterile, these reimagined artifacts reflect the shiny allure of corporate power that consumed the 1990s and early 2000s, while sending a flare from a future where the prospects of success and stability have become increasingly hollow...