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Ian Trout | there-there

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Painter [Ian Trout’s](https://sites.google.com/site/iantroutart/) new exhibit _Corporate Personhood_ is now on display at there-there gallery in Los Angeles. Trout’s exhibit skewers the infamous court cases _Citizens United v. FEC_ (2010) and _Burwell v. Hobby Lobby_ (2014), which granted corporations unlimited political spending and allowed for-profit corporations to hold religious views (thereby allowing religious objection to covering contraceptives), respectively. The clever name of the show references Chief Justice Morrison Wiate, who in 1886 claimed that corporations are considered persons, thus changing the inherent meaning of the 14th amendment to provide equal protections to “natural persons” as well as corporations. Trout cheekily explores what a “corporate person” could be in this exhibit, combining modernism, logos, and the body—a comment on the absurdity of this idea of corporate personhood. _Corporate Personhood_ also features political cartoons, altered to fit Kasimir Malevich’s theory of supremacism. Trout points out the similarities between supremacism’s desire for “non-objective creation” with the Justices’ stripped definition of personhood. * * * _Corporate Personhood_ will be showing through September 8th. [there-there gallery](https://there-there.co) is located at 4859 Fountain Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029