October 18 - November 22, 2025

From Ivester Contemporary:

In their debut solo exhibition at Ivester contemporary, artist Lauren Klotzman explores boredom as both a cultural condition and a generative state of mind. The show brings together gouache paintings, video works created with an analog modular synthesizer, and a sculptural wall hanging. Though varied in form, Klotzman considers each work a “painting,” an assertion that expands the term beyond traditional media to include moving images and object-based composition.  At the center of 100% ENNUI is the paradox of screen culture: impossibly saturated, perpetually distracting, and yet profoundly boring. Klotzman suggests that the endless cycle of digital stimulation produces a specific kind of boredom, one marked by both restlessness and diversion, simultaneously. Rather than resisting this condition, the artist embraces it. For Klotzman, boredom is fruitful, a space where idle contemplation becomes possible. Echoing philosophical notions that boredom can open onto revelation, the works in this exhibition ask whether ennui might contain the seeds of insight or even a form of enlightenment.  Lauren Klotzman is an artist who pushes against the term “interdisciplinary,” instead conceptualizing their studio as a complex feedback system that contains an anti-disciplinary practice driven by many media forms. As a video practitioner, Klotzman is an instrumentalist, operating an analog modular video synthesizer to create “video paintings” via electricity. Based primarily in Texas, they are a recent MFA graduate from Yale Painting. Current research topics include historical computing, New Materialism, perception, consciousness, and “nostalgia of the future.” They have exhibited internationally, and their writings have been published by Hyperallergic and Glasstire, among others.