> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Optimization Never Arrives Christine Tien Wang + Rachel Youn at Night Gallery Los Angeles - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/night-gallery-los-angeles-presents-factory-doomscroll/ - Published: 2026-04-02T06:45:09.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-02T06:45:09.000Z - Description: Night Gallery presents Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn in Factory Doomscroll, Los Angeles. On memes, motors, and the labor of the disposable. Through April 4. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition **Factory Doomscroll - Night Gallery** **Artists:** Christine Tien Wang, Rachel Youn **Exhibition:** Factory Doomscroll **Venue:** [Night Gallery](https://nightgallery.ca/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Los Angeles, USA **Dates:** February 24, 2026\- April 4, 2026 **Address:** 2050 Imperial Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 **Photography:** Chris Grunder (Wang works), Nik Massey (Youn works), Marten Elder (installs) **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles ## Night Gallery Presents Factory Doomscroll in Los Angeles There is a particular exhaustion built into objects designed to make life easier. The massage chair that hums past midnight. The meme that spreads while its subject is still being arraigned. Both operate on the same logic: comfort as motion, repetition as relief, with the relief never quite landing. ![Christine Tien Wang](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/christine-tien-wang-1.webp) Night Gallery presents Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn in Factory Doomscroll, Los Angeles - Image - Artist ****Christine Tien Wang Artwork -** Installation view - Photo Marten Elder ![Rachel Youn, kinetic installation, current exhibition at night gallery Los Angeles, called factory doomscroll](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/rachel-youn-night-gallery--los-angeles.webp) ****Night Gallery presents** Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn in Factory Doomscroll, Los Angeles Installation view Image - Installation view ****Rachel Youn** Artwork - Image Courtesy of Night Gallery Photo Marten Elder What happens when those objects outlive their usefulness but continue running anyway, or when the ephemeral is forced to hold its form long past the moment it was designed for? That gap between function and performance, between the promise of ease and its mechanical actuality, is where this exhibition lives. > Both artists are working with the same broken machine, one in steel and motor, the other in acrylic and brushwork, each asking whether preserving the throwaway changes anything about its essential nature. [**Night Gallery's** ](https://www.nightgallery.ca/?ref=catapult-platform.art)industrial Imperial Street space in Los Angeles carries a particular charge for a show that opened during Frieze L.A., an art fair weekend built on velocity, on the kind of looking that moves fast and commits to nothing. **Factory Doomscroll** doesn't resist that context. It amplifies it. The room hums and pulses: motors cycle, canvases hold images that should have been dead by the time the paint dried. ![Christine Tien Wang in her studio, artist portrait ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/christine-tien-wang.webp) ****Christine Tien Wang** in her Studio - Photography: Shao-Feng Hsu Image Courtesy of the Night Gallery and the Artist [**Christine Tien Wang** ](https://www.christinetienwang.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art)takes internet memes and renders them in large-scale photorealistic acrylic, a process that is, by design, counterproductive. *AI Luigi Angel* (2025) depicts Luigi Mangione winged, haloed, pistols in hand: the internet's brief and ironic canonization of an accused killer as folk hero, frozen in the moment the cultural current was already moving past it. ![Christine Tien Wang, detail of the painting AI Luigi Angel Luigi Mangione viral imagery in contemporary art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Christine-tien-wang--ai-luigi-angel--artwork-.webp) ****Christine Tien Wang** \- **AI Luigi Angel*, 2025 (Detail) - acrylic on canvas - 72 x 60 in (182.9 x 152.4 cm) Photo - Chris Gunder - Image Courtesy of the Night Gallery , Los Angeles ![viral political imagery elevated into large-format acrylic, night gallery artwork factory doomscrolling's exhibition by artist Christine Tien Wang](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Christine-Tien-Wang-1.webp) ****Christine Tien Wang** \- **Luigi German*, 2025 - acrylic on canvas - 96 x 72 in (243.8 x 182.9 cm) - Photo - Chris Gunder - Image Courtesy of the Night Gallery , Los Angeles ![Christine Tien Wang, artwork , painting called the loser viral political imagery elevated into large-format acrylic](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/christine-tien-wang-artwork.webp) ****Christine Tien Wang** \- **The Loser*, 2025 - acrylic on canvas - 96 x 72 in (243.8 x 182.9 cm) - Photo - Chris Gunder - Image Courtesy of the Night Gallery , Los Angeles Wang began the canvas when the meme was aging; by the time it was finished, its relevance had approached zero. The painting carries that decay without staging it as tragedy. It holds the image still and asks what it costs to do so. ![Christine Tien Wang, artwork, painting Bernie Fafo painting, Night Gallery , Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/christine-tien-wang-2.webp) ****Christine Tien Wang** \- **Bernie FAFO*, 2025 - acrylic on canvas - 45 x 80 in (114.3 x 203.2 cm) Photo - Chris Gunder - Image Courtesy of the Night Gallery , Los Angeles *The Loser* (2025) and *Bernie FAFO* (2025) operate on similar logic, viral political imagery elevated into large-format acrylic, granted the material permanence that nothing born on a screen was ever supposed to have. ![Rachel Youn - artist portrait in fron of her sculpture artworks](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Rachel-Youn-artist.webp) ****Rachel Youn**\- Artist Portrait - Photo: Jarod Lew - Image Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery [**Rachel Youn's**](https://rachelyoun.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) *CLEANSE (I'll do it myself)* (2024) reimagines a decommissioned car wash: wavy nylon strips hang from a tall steel frame, animated by an AC motor. The curtains are printed with an escape-fantasy beach scene, clear water, painfully blue sky, and they move through it continuously, performing relaxation for no one. The machine has outlived its commercial usefulness and knows nothing of it. It just keeps going. ![Rachel Youn , installation view -CLEANSE (I’ll do it myself) art work, reimagines a decommissioned car wash: wavy nylon strips hang from a tall steel frame, animated by an AC motor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/rachel-youn--artwork--ccleanse.webp) ****Rachel Youn** \- **CLEANSE (I’ll do it myself)*, 2024 - steel, aluminum, AC motor, hardware, nylon, UHMW, "escape photo real ocean" PEVA shower curtains 106 x 106 x 56 1/2 in (269.2 x 269.2 x 143.5 cm) - Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Photography by Nik Massey ![Rachel Youn, artwork - No Pain No Gain, walking band, with monitor and wooden geese](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Rachel-Youn--artwork.webp) ****Rachel Youn** **No Pain No Gain*, 2025 - walking band, wood, paint, brass, vinyl, cotton rope, cotton thread, hardware, motor, dead battery, found moving waterfall picture frame, monitor arm 25 1/2 x 46 x 21 in (64.8 x 116.8 x 53.3 cm) - Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Photography by Nik Massey *No Pain No Gain* (2025) compounds this: a walking band fitted with a dead battery sits alongside a found moving waterfall picture frame and an assortment of wellness hardware. The motor runs or it doesn't; the waterfall loops regardless. The work holds the collapsed promise of self-improvement without editorializing about it, the title does what the object refuses to. *Slow Burn* (2026) mounts a neck massager with artificial orchid and leaves, glass, snake chain, and monitor wall arm, wellness hardware assembled into something that reads more like an altar than a device. The object's domestic utility is still legible but beside the point; it has been repurposed into a thing that holds its form, that tends to itself. ![Rachel Youn - Slow Burn, artificial orchid, artificial leaves, glass, moving. ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/rachel-young.webp) ****Rachel Youn** \- **Slow Burn*, 2026 - neck massager, artificial orchid, artificial leaves, glass, snake chain, hardware, chain clamp, monitor wall mount 18 x 14 x 20 in (45.7 x 35.6 x 50.8 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Photography by Nik Massey ![Rachel Youn, artwork , Perfect Lovers II, 2026 under-desk elliptical machine](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/rachel-youn--art--installation.webp) ****Rachel Youn** **Perfect Lovers II*, 2026 under-desk elliptical machine, artificial orchids, wood, paint, bird spikes, glass, snake chain, hardware 41 x 28 x 38 in (104.1 x 71.1 x 96.5 cm) - Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. Photography by Nik Massey In the newer *Perfect Lovers II* (2026), an under-desk elliptical machine is fitted with artificial orchids and bird spikes, wellness infrastructure and deterrent infrastructure, both running, both ornamental, neither of them quite for a person. The show arrives at a specific moment: an era in which both physical and digital economies of comfort operate through the same logic of manufactured obsolescence. The wellness device is engineered to be replaced. The meme is engineered to decay. The platform profits from the next iteration, not the current one. Wang and Youn work against that logic, not by opposing it, but by taking it seriously enough to slow it down. Wang's brushwork is the labor the internet refuses to value; Youn's motors are the infrastructure that self-care culture never acknowledges. Neither artist resolves the question of whether preserving the throwaway changes anything about its essential nature, and that ambiguity seems fully intentional. The machines in this room will still be cycling long after the memes on the walls have become archaeological. The comfort they promise has outlasted its purpose, yet the motion remains, a quiet endurance that asks whether rest, too, has become just another form of labor. --- [**Rachel Youn on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/rachelyoun/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Christine Tien Wang in Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/christinetwang/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Night Gallery on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/nightgallery/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Installation Views - Night Gallery L.A. ![Night Gallery, Factory Doomscroll, installation view, works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. about memes, motors, and the labor of the disposable](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/night-gallery-doomscroll-exhibition.webp) ****Night Gallery,** **Factory Doomscroll*, installation view, 2025\. Works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Photography Marten Elder. Image courtesy of the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles ![Night Gallery Exhibiton Factory Doomscroll, installation view, works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. about memes, motors, and the labor of the disposable](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Rachel-yun-art.webp) ****Night Gallery,** **Factory Doomscroll*, installation view, 2025\. Works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Photography Marten Elder. Image courtesy of the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles ![Night Gallery Factory Doomscroll, installation view, works by Christine Tien Wang , paintings from social media and memes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/christine-tien-wang-art.webp) ****Night Gallery,** **Factory Doomscroll*, installation view, 2025\. Works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Photography Marten Elder. Image courtesy of the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles ![Night Gallery, Los Angeles. installation view, works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. about memes, motors, and the labor of the disposable](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/night-gallery.webp) ****Night Gallery,** **Factory Doomscroll*, installation view, 2025\. Works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Photography Marten Elder. Image courtesy of the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles ![Night Gallery presents Factory Doomscroll with works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn, paintings and installations, kinetic sculptures and provocative paintings](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/night-gallery-los-angeles.webp) ****Night Gallery,** **Factory Doomscroll*, installation view, 2025\. Works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Photography Marten Elder. Image courtesy of the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles ![Night Gallery, Los Angeles - installation view, works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Exhibition Factory Doomscroll currently on view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/doomscroll-exhibition.webp) ****Night Gallery,** **Factory Doomscroll*, installation view, 2025\. Works by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. Photography Marten Elder. Image courtesy of the artists and Night Gallery, Los Angeles **About Catapult** This is an artist interview published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) Want to be featured? 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