Gordon Robichaux is pleased to announce KIOSK’s return to New York City after a four-year hiatus with the exhibition FLASH BACK FLASH FORWARD, at once an installation and shop.

In the small gallery space, a new series of KIOSK’s iconic neon sculptures, configured in the form of an encompassing installation environment, immerse the viewer in an aura of glowing light and color. Created by KIOSK co-founder Marco ter Haar Romeny, the playful neon sculptures are composed from his collection of found, altered, and made glass tubes. Previously integrated within KIOSK’s shops and featured in their sprawling 2015 installation for Greater New York at MoMA/PS1, the neon sculptures are exhibited at Gordon Robichaux as stand-alone works.

In the larger gallery space, KIOSK presents a shop consisting of a collection of objects arranged within an installation that functions as a site of display. The environment, which combines Dieter Rams’s iconic shelving system for Vitsoe with KIOSK’s own handmade shelves fashioned out of foam core, is emblematic of KIOSK’s non-hierarchical approach to considerations of design—combining iconic and vernacular, found and made, new and old.

The objects offered for sale at Gordon Robichaux include selections from geographically based collections for which KIOSK is best known (German light prisms, Japanese headphones, Italian minimalist tape dispensers); artwork, objects, and books from their community of creative collaborators (stitched boro fragments, a ceramic knot, "Punks is Hippies" T-shirts); and objects not offered for sale from KIOSK’s vast master archive (a pink foam dog, Bhargava's Dictionary, a metal fish smoker). With KIOSK founders Alisa Grifo and Marco ter Haar Romeny present in the gallery, the exhibition is a space for the multiple forms of exchange which makes their creative practice so unique—merging shopkeeping and commerce with oral history, archival work, curatorial practices, education, community building, and the vitality that their public’s diverse perspectives bring to the interactive nature of their work.