Monte Vista Projects is pleased to present “tell your heart that i’m the one,” Joey Veltkamp’s first Los Angeles solo exhibition. For “tell your heart that i’m the one,” Veltkamp aims to collapse the distance between the Pacific Northwest and Los Angeles through the filter of Twin Peaks, a fictional town set less than sixty miles away from where he works and lives.
“We live inside a dream.”
Throughout time, humans have wrestled with the concept of reality. From Daoist Chiang Tzu’s Dream of the Butterfly,
to René Descartes, up to present day philosopher-physicists like Nick Bostrum.
Are we the dreamer? Or are we the dream?
Cinematic auteur David Lynch has created an entire career around the concept of challenging the notion of a conventional reality. Through his queer Northwest-folk lens of quilts and soft-paintings, Veltkamp explores this idea through key moments in Lynch’s (and Twin Peaks’ co-creator Mark Frost’s) world-building to explore topics of alternate realities, nostalgia, and queer politics. Veltkamp’s work functions equally as a shelter and a beacon for those that need its shelter, a safe space for those unaware they needed the safety and comfort of the spaces he creates.
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