Charged Particles in the Vicinity by south western artist collective El Disco, will be the final exhibition to take place at Rule Gallery’s Denver space. This ever so timely exhibition takes the viewer back to before the term UFO was replaced by UAP, back to a time where the immediacy of smart phone photography could only be rivaled by the iconic Polaroid.
Equal parts UFO investigators, photographers and performance artists, El Disco forces us to reconsider where the line between art and hoax lies. The provocative images produced by Joe Clower, Steve Thomsen, and Tennyson Woodbridge feel familiar and nostalgic as if they were ephemeral items from our childhood. These images invoke the hopeful sentiment from the famous X-Files poster, “I Want to Believe”. Belief that there is something greater in the universe is fundamental to the human experience, whether it be religion or extraterrestrials and this exhibition investigates the power of belief while instilling a sense of childlike wonder to those who gaze up to the heavens.
