Institute of Contemporary Arts

Genuine Fake Premium Economy brings together three emerging artists: Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison and Jasmine Gregory, whose practices interrogate ideas of class, inheritance and assumed values through representational media.

These artists – all born in the mid-80s in the US – transitioned into adulthood and working life in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and probe what effect this era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

This focused group exhibition takes the pulse of a rising generational concern of living and working in a broken global economy, through themes of the acceleration of wealth inequity, art as an asset class and what commodity culture looks like today. While their work differs in form (Bliss works primarily in moving image, Ellison in photography and Gregory in painting and assemblage) all three artists share similar stylistic approaches to satirising, staging or appropriating the real.