OFLUXO

Despite the fact that they share the same last name, artists Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll are not related. The Kroll Show is not to be confused with Kroll Show, which is actor and producer Nick Kroll’s Comedy Central TV show. Indeed, Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll are also not related to Nick Kroll.
But aren’t they all, in some way, connected?

The Kroll Show is all about coincidences and our interpretations of them. Confirmation biases. Magical thinking. Purpose, reverse-engineered.

With The Kroll Show, Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll examine the arbitrary decision of having a dual exhibition merely because they happen to share the same last name. There is little in common with the two Kroll’s respective artwork, but now they have more in common, by mere dint of them deciding to have this exhibition. And yet, as they looked a little closer, the Krolls started to see similarities in their practices: a tendency toward oblique figuration, shared references, hints that they occupied the same world.

This is probably incidental.
But what explains the fact that, as they conceived and discussed this exhibition, Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll started talking like each other? And why, during the installation of their work, did the two Krolls begin to look a little like each other? Who is this uber-Kroll forming between them?
Does Nick Kroll have anything to do with it? These questions are not arbitrary: they are essential.