ForRest
Inaugural Group Show
Centerfold, Los Angeles
716 N Fairfax Avenue, 90046
How has the perception of ‘rest’ shifted?
What is required of it?
What has been exhausted, and what refuses to stop?
If rest has historically been positioned as recovery, restoration, or retreat,
what happens when those frameworks no longer hold?
What happens when rest is no longer guaranteed, or worse, when it is commodified or optimized indefinitely?
Who then has access to rest, and under what conditions?
ForRest begins here, not with resolution, but with reflection.
The exhibition approaches rest as a paradigm: a structure that exceeds the individual,
then unevenly distributes itself across bodies and environments.
The unevenness is revealed once rest becomes a product. It is not neutral, it is granted, scheduled, bought, withheld.
As rest has the ability to restore, it simultaneously can slow down this same process;
it causes the prolonging or delaying of progression.
Is repose ever still, or is it always in motion?
The exhibition deals broadly with human negotiations of attention, labor, care, and withdrawal.
The works ask what it means to pause without disappearing, to stop without collapsing,
to remain within a state of suspension that is at once necessary and unstable.
Within this framework, rest transitions from kinetic to potential energy: energy in motion to motionless energy.
It manifests itself into a mental reorganization rather than complete stagnation or disassociation.
How does one recognize rest in abstraction?
Across painting, sculpture, and installation, the works resist a stable image in favor of atmosphere, density, and suspension.
Forms emerge only to dissolve. Surfaces register time as residue rather than a fixed event.
Abstraction is not aesthetic removal of the identifiable, but a way of grasping what cannot be pictured easily:
fatigue, care, psychic drift, the slow recalibration of attention through softness, obscurity, light and shadow.
Green circulates throughout the exhibition as both color and condition.
It indexes growth, decay, and duration without resolving into symbols.
It suggests an environment that is neither fully external nor fully internal, but continuous with the body.
In a space in which repose becomes spatialized, we can realize how bodies are a piece of a larger, living, and everchanging entity.
Installed as a concentrated, time-bound presentation, ForRest privileges proximity over scale, duration over spectacle.
It asks for a mode of looking attuned to delay, to accumulation,
to the subtle shifts that occur when nothing, ostensibly, is happening.
This exhibition marks the inaugural program of ForRest Los Angeles,
an artist-run initiative committed to sustained encounter, material inquiry, and asking questions together.
- Ari Salka
ARTISTS:
KIM DEJESUS
LEVON RIGGINS
VITA KARI
SYDNEY ACOSTA
ZOE KOKE
STACEY CALLE
JAMES HERMAN
IAN KURTIS CRIST
FORREST SCHERER
STARKEY FOSSGREEN
BREA WEINREB
JEN HITCHINGS
STEVEN ERAZO
KENDRA ADLER
OLIVIA MOLE
MIA WEINER
KARL HAENDEL
SAMALA MEZA
NICK LOWE
SENON WILLIAMS
SU WU
SEVERIN HALLAUER
ALEXANDRIA WALLACE
VIVIEN EBRIGHT CHUNG
OLI RODRIGUEZ
RABI TOWING
BRITTANY FANNING
STEFAN MEIER
ForRest Inaugural Show Artworks
ForRest is an artist-run project space located at
Centerfold, 716 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90048
Collector preview PDF available upon request starting the evening of April 28, 2026.
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