Andy Holden: MI!MS

Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity 1999-2013 (MI!MS) is a painstaking excavation of the period immediately prior to Andy Holden’s formal art training, uncovering and recreating an art movement devised by Holden and his friends as adolescents. MI!MS was an attempt to create work that was both ironic and sincere.

Structured in eight parts, the history and works of MI!MS unfold across a densely layered installation incorporating video, music, painting, drawing, sculpture and text. By means of this over-investment in a moment from his youth, Holden asks how we might make things with conviction and meaning in a culture dominated by postmodernist irony and cynicism.