25 April – 13 May 2012

Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present ‘Early Imperial Luxury Arts’, an exhibition of new work by JAYSON SCOTT MUSSON as a part of FIRST AMONG EQUALS exhibition at the ICA in Philadelphia.

Early Imperial Luxury Arts is about the inevitable failure of the State, remedy and the State’s inability to recognize when it has entered its terminal days. Whether it’s through a haze of fictitious patriotism abstracted from the true causal forces that created the state, or due to the equally potent delusion of comfort objects and pacifying spectacle, the State, like a jilted lover, is often the last to know when it’s over.