Hans Goodrich will present a screening accompanied by a live talk in which I insert, disrupt and pepper bomb the presentation with materials from my most recent work on exhibit at Hans Goodrich. Refusing the passive format of the artist lecture, I will treat the event itself as a staged apparatus: part lecture, part performance, part hostile takeover of attention. The program will feature two recent music videos produced in collaboration with Danish singer-songwriter and producer Jeppe Laursen. These new works extend that relationship into a volatile audiovisual language—where the music video is stripped of entertainment value and redeployed as a delivery system for confrontation, rhythm, and ideological interference. I will treat the event itself as a staged apparatus: part lecture, part performance, part hostile takeover of attention. TRT of event is under 50 minutes and will take place on Saturday May 24 @hansgoodrich 🕑 TBA
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WARM LEATHERETTE
May 21-31, 2026
@hansgoodrich
1843 S. Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60608
Hans Goodrich is pleased to present WARM LEATHERETTE, a new solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based visual cultural insurgent Mark Verabioff, opening May 21. Working across language, installation, and exhibition design, Verabioff treats the gallery not as a neutral container but as a pressure system—an arena where text becomes image, display becomes behavioral control, and participatory spectacle itself is placed under siege.
For WARM LEATHERETTE, Verabioff intervenes directly onto the gallery’s storefront windows, carpet bombing them with vinyl image/ text decals in a sustained and confrontational criminal gay gesture. These works operate as linguistic disruptions—simultaneously seductive and hostile—targeting what Verabioff has coined as “the new bore”: a pandemic of digital pestilence infecting culture’s immune system. As passersby encounter the installation, their gaze is not passive but processed, folded into a feedback loop of criminal gay combustion and reflection. The storefront becomes both barrier trench and broadcast tower, a public-facing behavioral script where language is weaponized and participation is implicated in plain sight.
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This criminal gay is done with this priss painting complacency—the soft, careerist, deodorized gesture pretending to be risk.
Against this deadened cultural front, this criminal gay forces rupture. This criminal gay forces the inside out. This criminal gay forces culture dandruff to carpet bomb its composure—and this criminal gay leaves it there, exposed, pathetic, and unable to recover.
Showing these six Template One-Offs at @grupo__ene One Night Group Show this Saturday night 🌴🕶️✨at Bar Latino.
Mark Verabioff
Template One-Offs, 2026
6 unique printed posters, 20” x 16”
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