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For his debut Los Angeles exhibition, Westfall presents a new body of work consisting of installation, sculpture, and painting that collectively operate as a set of proposals on the cultural and societal function of violence.

The exhibition brings together a diverse set of philosophical, anthropological, and literary perspectives in an effort to assemble a composite structure capable of accounting for violence as a kind of cultural imperative, and through which current and historical events (most significantly the ongoing civil war in Syria) can be addressed. At the same time, Westfall …