Alex Prager: Pacific Noise

Alex Prager: Pacific Noise invites visitors into the artist’s carefully constructed world, where fiction and reality blur. Featuring approximately 30 photographs, films, and sculpture spanning the north half of the Momentary, the exhibition focuses on Prager’s work from the past decade while incorporating select earlier pieces that trace Prager’s artistic evolution. Often celebrated for her meticulously constructed and endlessly alluring imagery, this dissonant presentation in the industrial space of the Momentary lets Prager’s work sing like never before.

Making their institutional debut, Prager’s newest photographs embrace a heightened sense of fiction. Known for her cinematic depictions of Hollywood, Prager pushes further into the surreal, populating scenes with elegantly dressed figures wearing exaggerated wigs, prosthetics and costumes. Through these playful distortions, she transforms familiar realities into something both recognizable and uncanny.

At a time when questions of authenticity are ever-present, Pacific Noise explores the shifting boundaries between the real and the imagined. Through Prager’s lens, the exhibition embodies the fuzzy static separating the real world of Los Angeles from the buzzing distortion of a hyper-real Hollywood. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

This exhibition is free, no tickets required.