Exhibition: YesYou by Paul Bojack
Event Date:
June 19th – July 19th, 2025
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays: 1 - 6pm
And by appointment
Opening reception with the artist:
Thursday, June 19th, 5 – 8pm
Location:
Z83
2400 James L. Wood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Tickets:
Free and open to the public
No tickets or reservations necessary
Award-winning filmmaker Paul Bojack turns his gaze toward the viewer in his latest work, YesYou. This experimental media art installation will make its public debut at Z83 in Los Angeles from June 19 through July 19, opening intentionally on Juneteenth to deepen its themes of identity and justice.
Originally previewed online in 2021, YesYou now emerges in physical form with its first chapter of work: a series of fourteen short vignettes presented across five private viewing booths. Clocking in at a total of eighteen minutes, the vignettes are designed to be viewed in any order, offering visitors a non-linear journey through a fragmented yet intimate landscape of modern identity.
But this isn’t passive viewing. In each booth, visitors see their own live reflection woven directly into the artwork. Through motion, image, sound, poetry, and text, the viewer becomes part of the piece — shifting from spectator to participant in real time.
The experience is playful, surreal, and at times unsettling. Drawing on influences from electronic literature, Cageian chance operations, and interactive media, Bojack constructs a format that resists easy categorization. One moment you’re confronted by stark, confrontational labels; the next, you’re reading a quiet cascade of words that pulse like thought fragments. Each vignette is a sharp flash of narrative, emotion, or absurdity — always brief, but rarely light.
Bojack’s signature cinematic eye meets an experimental structure that prioritizes reflection, both literal and metaphorical. The result is a work that’s provocative and participatory, philosophical and fast-paced. It invites curiosity, embraces discomfort, and creates space for self-examination within the moving image.
Visitors will leave not with answers, but with a heightened awareness of the assumptions, identities, and contradictions we carry with us — both onscreen and off.
“As people view and are put inside these pieces, I think they’ll experience joy, wonder, anxiety, sadness, laughter, perhaps some anger too. Also, I hope that people will let themselves go, let their imaginations soar. Some pieces in this series are confrontational and blunt but the others are more oblique, open-ended, and designed to take you somewhere mentally and emotionally – places dark and light. Those places will be different for each person, based on who you are, your frame of mind, and your mood. When people leave the exhibit, I’d like for them to reflect on who they are, and who they could become. And to ask the same questions about people they know and people they don’t know.”
About Paul Bojack
Paul Bojack is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and artist whose work spans film, video, and new media. With a career rooted in bold, thought-provoking storytelling, he has been exploring new narratives and experimental filmmaking. Currently, Bojack is exploring participatory moving image art with Your Reflection/Change of Direction, a project that literally puts viewers inside the artwork.
His feature films have earned praise from publications like The New York Times, LA Weekly, and Variety, which called him “a filmmaker who refuses to play it safe.” Paul’s work continues to evolve at the intersection of cinema and interactive media, inviting audiences to become active participants in exploratory experiences.
Read our interview with Paul to learn more about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
