Ruttkowski;68

Devin Troy Strother (b. 1986, lives and works in Los Angeles, US) presents his fourth solo exhibition with R;68 in Cologne. The show B M W (A Black Man’s Wish) borrows its title from a phrase that emerged from the aspirational culture of 1980s Harlem. Humorous on the surface, the expression reflects a time when European luxury cars functioned as symbols of status, mobility, and success. Within that world, the BMW became more than a vehicle, it represented arrival, visibility, and the fantasy of escaping economic limitation. Strother himself owns a black 2012 328-i BMW station wagon, a detail…