{img description: a working class activist of color wearing a tshirt of a political candidate who champions the working classes of chinatown at one of 47 canal gallery's two spaces, a gallery that has nothing to do with the gentrification of chinatown with a working class bag in the background indigenous to the neighborhood}
{img description: a working class bag indigenous to the neighborhood of chinatown and filled with anti-capitalist pamphlets}
To express her support for the working classes of Boyle Heights rightfully vandalizing white galleries in Los Angeles, Margaret Lee collaborated with Barney's to destroy capitalism by creating window displays that showcase her extremely political art. In this art, politics meets little shits made of plaster, simulations, the way capitalism is a simulation that must be destroyed, but Margaret Lee's art must not be destroyed. As a nod to Manual Labor, Margaret Lee used her hands and got them dirty.
By putting art in windows, one like, does not necessarily put "art" "art" like the kind of art that is sold on a market. This cactus, for example, expresses the true 14% xicano heritage of the artist by refering to the desert, a mainsay in her country of origin, Mexico.
As a gallery, 47 canal uses no money and does not engage with any form
of capital that comes from profit made on the real estate market. This would seem to pose a conflict with a collab w barneys because so far, this here seems like just some bullshit luxury art collab and the powerful class struggle isn't immediately apparent. That's a typical mistake when examining the work of Margaret Lee, an artist whose work is so subtle you have to wait until the last screenshot until the mark of the intellect is revealed.
Very, very, good and nice...
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