Homo sapiens as the ultimate invasive species. Modernism as failure. Empire in collapse. Daniel Joseph Martinez's States of Being at Marian Goodman Gallery presents the third and final movement of a trilogy thirty years in the making—five monumental self-portraits in post-human guise alongside new blackboard works where chalk definitions interrogate how language shifts, empties, and reflects who we are now. Martinez uses his own body as the site of transmutation.
