benjamin reiss's package factory (natural marriage of natural resources) (2016-2018) probes at the limits of understanding, the unconscious, and the outsourcing of agency via the card-backed blister package, used for selling batteries, toys, chapstick, pens, and a great many other quotidian items.

the work is presented alongside research notes and drawings made during its production, and a series of satellite works.

this exhibition is accompanied by a lover's guide to the package factory by ana iwataki, a booklet published with a selection of notes for package factory.

benjamin reiss (b. 1985, los angeles) lives and works in los angeles. recent and forthcoming exhibitions include parker gallery, los angeles; actual size, los angeles; 247365, new york; m+b, los angeles (forthcoming).

ana iwataki (b. 1989, los angeles) is a curator, writer, and translator who lives and works in los angeles.

the show will be up from april 12 to may 19.