Carlye Packer is proud to current This Grass is Inexperienced, Los Angeles-based artist Samala Meza’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Opening Friday, Might twenty third from 6 to eight pm, This Grass is Inexperienced might be on view via Saturday, June twenty eighth, at Sidecar, 2034 Imperial St, Los Angeles, CA 90021.
Meza’s new physique of labor presents shade area work that method femininity as a proper code—flattened, stylized, and distributed throughout the floor. Utilizing softly-rendered shapes and punctiliously repeated visible motifs, Meza creates a language of erotic abstraction: diagrams that recommend publicity with out revealing, that invite need with out naming.
The works recall a visible economic system pulled from logos, ads, and public signage. Centralized voids and concentric types nod to targets or icons, whereas their softened edges resist legibility. Right here, abstraction doesn’t obscure—it heightens. These are usually not portraits of girls, however patterns about wanting. The physique seems not as determine, however as schema.
Whereas rooted in formal portray, Meza’s follow attracts from a broader inquiry into the spatial politics of visibility, as articulated by Paul B. Preciado in Pornotopia: “Pornographic structure doesn’t conceal; it exposes. It doesn’t defend; it affords itself. It doesn’t characterize; it reproduces.”
Working inside that conceptual climate, Meza’s compositions don’t depict a lot as they flow into. Their softness is intentional, and strategic. It marks a boundary—between pleasure and efficiency, between need and its staging. The works sit within the seductive area between critique and compulsion — they’re satirical with out irony, educational with out insistence. Pleasure is taken severely, and softness is a sort of technique.
