You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Untitled (A place to stand and stare, recalling tunes of ballads in a minor key)
It is “the running after the spinning top” or “To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.” Carson via Enns.
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” Martin Luther King
“…je m’endormis, prêt à retrouver dans mon sommeil la transfiguration hallucinée des événements de la nuit, à me réveiller dans un monde qui paraîtrait inaltéré au premier regard, mais où tout, sous la surface des choses, sous la peau du temps, aurait changé à jamais.
Tels furent, après ma soirée dans la toile de l’Araignée, mes premiers pas sur le cercle de solitude où glissaient Le Labyrinthe de l’inhumain et T.C. Elimane.”
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
The Psychosocial Foundation Presents: On Love, with Anahid Nersessian and Ronjaunee Chatterjee, (032023).
Untitled (Field Guide; “what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature”) ii, 2023. Graphite, colored pencil, gesso, enamel paint, gouache, collage, pigment print on paper. 75 x 54 cm
Denise Levertov, “Pleasures”. (I like to find/ what’s not found / at once, but lies …)
Hard luck and trouble
Been my only friend
I’ve been on my own
Ever since I was ten
[…]
You know wine and women
Is all I crave
A big legged woman
Gonna carry me to my grave
[…]
[Chorus]
Born under a bad sign
I’ve been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I tell ya, I wouldn’t have no luck at all
[Outro]
Yeah, I’m a bad luck boy
Been havin’ bad luck all of my days, yes
Untitled (Freedom is near, Rose, Night), 2008-2023.
““The night time is the right time,” a time to reveal and fulfill desire, a time to dream, the world of the unknown, the hallucinatory.”
“Yes, “it’s always night,” which is why we absolutely need light”
“they had to camouflage their boldness”
– Kelley, Freedom Dreams
Galerie Monnin at Atlantic ArtHouse-The Open Boat, December 7-10, 2023, Villa Paula, 5811 N Miami Avenue, Miami.
“La compréhension …”
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Jacqueline Utley, Flowers Looking Care, 2021. Oil on linen. 40 x 30 cm, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. via Niru Ratnam at Untitled Miami.
Think of those flowers that you plant, Ashish Avikunthak, Emma Cousin, Milly Thompson, Jacqueline Utley, 5 July – 12 August 2023.
A Gentil Carioca is pleased to announce Topografia da Memória, an installation by Sallisa Rosa commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary, curated by Denis Pernet and Thiago de Paula Souza. The work explores the theme of memory and is made up of more than 100 ceramic pieces handmade from collected clay, arranged in such a way as to create an environment for visitors to explore.
Topography of Memory will be on display until December 17, 2023 at the Collins Park Rotunda. In 2024, the work will be presented in Brazil, where it will be exhibited at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo between March 16 and July 28.
Topography of Memory.