Persons Unknown

Congratulations to Inga Hendrickson and Megan Macuen on their incredible show, (I’m Sorry) I’m Dirty, that opened at Persons Unknown last night. 🎉 @ingahendrickson @razzledazzlemuseum (I’m Sorry) I’m Dirty brings together recent installations Razzle Dazzle by Megan Macuen and Fountain by Inga Hendrickson. While the two structures evade aesthetic connectors, a relational poetics unfolds. They converse about materiality and recognizability - real versus artificial, “organic” versus commercial. They both exhibit structures and infrastructures, suggesting we only ever get a glimpse of a sliver of a system, as systems often exist as Russian Dolls - in sets of systems within systems within systems. And, systems that are cyclical contain feedback loops. Much goes on for a system’s success, or in this case, failure. Both of these systems are failing. Contamination, displacement, and collapse loom. The containers are faulty, the objects’ functions are rendered less effective or even useless. It is in these glitches, however, that the works offer glimpses of generative potential joy. Whether the glitch is a way out or a new way – a systematic malfunction that insists on celebration of the filthy, precarious, chaotic problem solving – glitch is generative. On view through 5/24, with open hours Saturdays 1-5pm. DM or email for appt to view. Persons Unknown @personsunknowngallery 1206 Maple Ave #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

(I’ m S o r r y) I’ m D i r t y brings together recent installations R a z z l e D a z z l e by Megan Macuen @razzledazzlemuseum and F o u n t a i n by Inga Hendrickson @ingahendrickson While the two structures evade aesthetic connectors, a relational poetics unfolds. They converse about materiality and recognizability - real versus artificial, “organic” versus commercial. They both exhibit structures and infrastructures, suggesting we only ever get a glimpse of a sliver of a system, as systems often exist as Russian Dolls - in sets of systems within systems within systems. And, systems that are cyclical contain feedback loops. Much goes on for a system’s success, or in this case, failure. Both of these systems are failing. Contamination, displacement, and collapse loom. The containers are faulty, the objects’ functions are rendered less effective or even useless. It is in these glitches, however, that the works offer glimpses of generative potential joy. Whether the glitch is a way out or a new way – a systematic malfunction that insists on celebration of the filthy, precarious, chaotic problem solving – glitch is generative. Inga Hendrickson & Megan Macuen (I’m Sorry) I’m Dirty May 2nd - May 24th, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2nd, 7-10 pm @personsunknowngallery 1206 Maple Ave #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Tentacular Hypermaterialism II Agustin Rosa @rosa_studio_art Smartphone, tape, paper pulp, water color, 2026. Nonstop Gaze Research Unit: Samia Bzioui, Anna Reed, Agustin Rosa March 21st - April 19th, 2026 The works in this exhibition asks what it means to be recognized and by whom. The artists reveal how perception itself is constructed, conditioned, and circulated across bodies, devices, and images. What emerges is a charged space in which the the infrastructures that co-constituve the contemporary subject are made visible and unsettled. @samia_bzioui @annaoreed @rosa_studio_art On view by appt @ PERSONS UNKNOWN 1206 Maple Avenue, 6th floor, #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Anthropomonster II Samia Bzioui @samia_bzioui Acrylic and paper collage on canvas, 30x24, 2026 Nonstop Gaze Research Unit: Samia Bzioui, Anna Reed, Agustin Rosa March 21st - April 19th, 2026 The works in this exhibition asks what it means to be recognized and by whom. The artists reveal how perception itself is constructed, conditioned, and circulated across bodies, devices, and images. What emerges is a charged space in which the the infrastructures that co-constituve the contemporary subject are made visible and unsettled. @samia_bzioui @annaoreed @rosa_studio_art On view by appt @ PERSONS UNKNOWN 1206 Maple Avenue, 6th floor, #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Sacred and True. Anna Reed @annaoreed Pigment print, gold leaf, gilded frame, 16x20, 2025. Nonstop Gaze Research Unit: Samia Bzioui, Anna Reed, Agustin Rosa March 21st - April 19th, 2026 The works in this exhibition asks what it means to be recognized and by whom. The artists reveal how perception itself is constructed, conditioned, and circulated across bodies, devices, and images. What emerges is a charged space in which the the infrastructures that co-constituve the contemporary subject are made visible and unsettled. @samia_bzioui @annaoreed @rosa_studio_art On view by appt @ PERSONS UNKNOWN 1206 Maple Avenue, 6th floor, #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Nonstop Gaze Research Unit: Samia Bzioui, Anna Reed, Agustin Rosa. On view March 21st - April 19th, 2026. Persons Unknown is pleased to present Nonstop Gaze Research Unit. We built a world that watches everything. Walk in and see the wiring with Non-Stop Gaze Research Unit. Across painting, installation and the manipulated interface, three artists propose the exhibition as a diagnostic apparatus, a space in which the infrastructures that script desire, structure attention, and determine whose lives are valued and whose are rendered expendable are submitted to sustained scrutiny. @samia_bzioui @annaoreed @rosa_studio_art The works in this exhibition asks what it means to be recognized and by whom. The artists reveal how perception itself is constructed, conditioned, and circulated across bodies, devices, and images. What emerges is a charged space in which the the infrastructures that co-constituve the contemporary subject are made visible and unsettled. DM or email for an appt to view. PERSONS UNKNOWN 1206 Maple Avenue, 6th floor, #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Nonstop Gaze Research Unit: Samia Bzioui, Anna Reed, Agustin Rosa March 21st - April 19th, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 21st, 7-10 pm Persons Unknown is pleased to present Nonstop Gaze Research Unit. We built a world that watches everything. Walk in and see the wiring with Non-Stop Gaze Research Unit. Across painting, installation and the manipulated interface, three artists propose the exhibition as a diagnostic apparatus, a space in which the infrastructures that script desire, structure attention, and determine whose lives are valued and whose are rendered expendable are submitted to sustained scrutiny. @samia_bzioui @annaoreed @rosa_studio_art The works in this exhibition asks what it means to be recognized and by whom. The artists reveal how perception itself is constructed, conditioned, and circulated across bodies, devices, and images. What emerges is a charged space in which the the infrastructures that co-constituve the contemporary subject are made visible and unsettled. PERSONS UNKNOWN 1206 Maple Avenue, 6th floor, #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Mathilda LaZelle, Play Me Video Game (Bonus Round!) 2026. Installed with “younger days,” Backlit Duratrans Film print, acrylic mounted in custom lightbox (batteries included, 16 x 20 x 3” 2026. Closing reception for Play Me featuring @kayla.tange and @mathildasuniverse will be this Saturday 3/7 from 6-8pm 6th floor of the @bendixbuilding 🩷 1206 Maple Ave #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Kayla Tange, Infinite Loop (Viewing Condition), 2026. Plastic, wood, vinyl, polyester, nylon, single channel video. 84”x48”x30” Closing reception for Play Me featuring @kayla.tange and @mathildasuniverse will be this Saturday 3/7 from 6-8pm 6th floor of the @bendixbuilding 🩷 1206 Maple Ave #620 Los Angeles, CA 90015

Persons Unknown is pleased to present Play Me. Referencing arcade logic, seductive interfaces, and reward systems, Play Me frames desire as something to be navigated, earned, dispensed. Viewers encounter a choreography of control that mirrors the games we cannot opt out of—where attention functions as currency and intimacy is structured by design. Mathilda LaZelle’s sculptural joystick operates as both symbol and interface, navigating femme commodification and digital dissociation, while Kayla Tange positions the audience beneath a watching body, emphasizing asymmetries of power and sustained observation. By invitation and command, Play Me reclaims control from the circuits that commodify pleasure, turning the performer, the watcher, and the machine into co-conspirators in the act of touch. Mathilda LaZelle and Kayla Tange @mathildasuniverse & @kayla.tange Play Me February 14th - March 7th, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 14th, 7-10 pm Frieze-week Bendix Building Reception: Saturday, February 28th 7-10pm PERSONS UNKNOWN, 1206 Maple Avenue, 6th floor, #620 Los Angeles, CA 9001 @personsunknowngallery 6th floor of the @bendixbuilding

Last day to see Not (fer) Nothing curated by @ratbabyjones with art by @ashtonsphillips @halloumi_heidi @jjennyraskk @flwr.patch 🩷

Never Static — A ReComposition Station for Plastic Bodies Ashton S. Phillips @ashtonsphillips Botanical pigments derived from feral invasive species, foraged wild fennel and morning glory, pollution-consuming fungal egg tempera, plastic-nourished cacti in styrofoam/frass-enriched dirt and hole-y styrofoam Dimensions variable. 2023 – 2025 Not (fer) Nothing. 🌸 On view at Persons Unknown through this Sunday 11/16, make an appt to view this week or come celebrate at the closing reception with us Sunday 11/16 from 1-5pm! Not (fer) Nothin: Ashton S. Phillips, Jenny Rask, Heidi Ross, Mica Scallion-Ford @ashtonsphillips @jjennyraskk @halloumi_heidi @flwr.patch “My mother—and maybe someone you know, too—uses dryer lint skimmed from the trap to make firestarters, homely little capsules imbued with a mythological task. Lint is not quite nothing; it still might be retrieved for further purpose before oblivion and rebirth. Not (fer) Nothin offers works from artists who each in their way employ a salvage mentality, gleaning materials slated for decay and refashioning them into missives on metabolic processes and the possibilities of regeneration.” —Rachel Elizabeth Jones @ratbabyjones 📷: @robben_munoz ✨