ProblemChild Advisory: Q3

Diego Gabaldon, Kyle Gallager, Nina Hartmann, Leif Jones, Gyae Kim, Danka Latorre, Jack Lawler, Sean David Morgan, In June Park, Cameron Spratley

In economic terms, Q3 typically refers to the third quarter of the fiscal or financial year, spanning July, August, and September. It’s a checkpoint — not quite the end, but a moment to assess, reflect, and prepare for what’s to come. It’s a time for reporting, re-evaluating, and re-strategizing — a pause before the finale.

Q3 evokes bureaucracy, professionalism, and optimization, but in its shadow lies a looming sense of anxiety and unease. The gates are closing. The body is still, but there is still life under the overpass.

Offering a surreal cocktail of brawls, shots, shadows, pixies, pixels, girls, gremlins, yogis, business deals, actors, horses, hooligans and a puppy. Q3 serves up a crude account of the current state of affairs and conjures up a frightening premonition of what could spur if business continues to carry on as usual.

There’s something sinister in the air. The bass pulses low. The clock ticks. A dissonant chord is expected to resolve.

Like a beat that’s just too fast in a song that’s just too loud — agitating and disorienting — the visuals worm their way through the psyche. The works reflect our screen-addled, overstimulated moment. Symbols flicker like road signs in a dark tunnel. There’s a forgotten mysticism here — a ritual quality to art that’s resurfacing from the underground.

ProblemChild Advisory offers something else here: a new vision of art proprietorship. One that acknowledges the system — and then twists it, distorts it, and dances through its ruins.

ProblemChild Advisory is a conceptual curatorial project based out of New York City.