Grip Face Spanish, b. 1988

Tripping in the Age of Brain Rot — On the Work of Grip Face Text/ Sid CHEN When I look at the paintings of Spanish artist Grip Face (David Oliver), I feel as though I am observing how elements from different dimensions and contexts unfold simultaneously on a single plane....

In 1924, as the world was still reeling from the upheaval of World War I and the influenza pandemic, the first Surrealist Manifesto was published in Paris. It embodied a powerful spirit of anarchism and revolution, striving to develop means of resisting oppressive systems and imagining a future founded on...