At Lisson Gallery, Josh Kline Presents the Spoils of a Social Media Ransacked World

When Josh Kline premiered his breakthrough exhibit “Dignity and Self Respect” at downtown gallery 47 Canal in 2011, the world hadn’t yet experienced the visual content glut we live with today. Instagram had just graduated from a fledgling company to a photo database steered by a couple of million monthly active users, Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel was still defending his app’s short-term content premise and pre-TikTok ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming was still noodling around with news aggregators.

Kline’s most recent exhibition...