Fritz Welch's installation also presents a world transformed through a manipulation of context. Based in the types of cultural products and by-products that pile up around us like so much trash, Welch produces his work through a process of disassembly, ruination, and regeneration. The artist finds his inspiration in sources as varied as agit-prop graffiti, found photos, and concrete poetry, as well as in the ever evolving culture of avant garde music and performance.

The work included at Momenta includes a large sculpture, just beyond human scale. Pure in its geometric reference – but piss elegant; the monolith resists being solely formal (or anti-formal) through cultural

engagement. Not only does the object hold out a hollowed tree stump like a sort of baptismal font – but also it is surrounded by text and images that act as a kind of corrupt pop congregation. Text from Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life, selectively blacked-out images on posters, and a handmade poster advertising the limitless possibilities and glories of human mutation create an interstitial space between the world and individual action. Together, this work suggests an oxymoronic will to power of the margins, offering a radicalized, yet still latent, social desire for change.

Fritz Welch is a Brooklyn-based artist who has exhibited work extensively in the US and Europe. He also plays drums and percussion with the groups psi, HorseEyeless and the live video ensemble Naval Cassidy and the Hands of Orlak and is the vocalist for the akshun/muzak duo, Pee In My Face With Surgery. He has recently exhibited at Participant, Inc. in New York, Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, the AC Project Room in New York, and his work will be will be in an upcoming show at Stedlijk Bureau in Amsterdam.