, things like this
15 November - 14 December, 2024
39 Temple Street
London E2 6QQ
I’ve stared down enough primed canvases and black screen crashes that even the thought of it induces an immediate feeling of panic in my chest. It’s either, “Oh my god, I have so much work to do…” Or “Oh my god, what happened to all of my work?” And then, “Oh my god, if I can’t find it, I’m gonna have so much work to do…” Do I associate a blank slate, a tabula rasa, only with an unwieldy expectation or an unexpected disaster?
But as a visual experience, I find so much pleasure in emptiness. I’ve cried in front of Blinky Palermo’s triangles and will stare out across the water to the horizon for hours. I prefer it, this emptiness. Perhaps because engaging with it requires a different kind of attention and so a different kind of work.
But Palermo’s triangles and nature’s horizon aren’t empty of course, they’re blank. They’re not even blank, they’re blank adjacent. They’re relatively blank. And Palermo’s triangles and nature’s horizon aren’t without work of course. They required a lot of work on the part of a lot of people, named and unnamed, to arrive in front of us as relatively blank. But relatively blank in a valued emptiness 留白 (intentionally blank) kind of way, not in a panic-inducing tabula rasa kind of way.
In , things like this. Kelly Lloyd presents a new body of work. Lloyd creates installations that combine text, murals, and discrete objects, and writes essays that she occasionally performs. Lloyd interchanges humour, denial, and the personal to maintain a level of indeterminacy in her work that she hopes destabilizes stock relationships between looking, identifying, and understanding.
Oh Holi-delay
Dilettante Army - Party as Form (Winter 2024)
Kelly Lloyd presents a new scientific study on holi-delay, “a condition where people only get excited about holidays after they happen,” that evidences a cultural shift in how we set expectations for meaningful holiday celebrations.
Image by: Jen Monroe Hunter-Abrams
HAIR + WAITING
HAIR CLUB is an interdisciplinary, research-based art collective whose work dives into the topic of hair in culture. Co-founded in 2014, HAIR CLUB puts forth a socially engaged art historical practice which embraces the many associations of hair in culture – art, popular culture, religion, literature, history, politics, and more – as well as the material of hair itself as it finds its way into artists’ practices across the globe.
HAIR AND WAITING emerged from Erika Råberg’s invitation to think about hair itself as a time-based medium. The result is a zine which has been slipped into the pages of fashion magazines already sitting in the waiting rooms of hair salons in Stockholm, London, Rome, and Baltimore – cities where each of us is based. Their discovery is left to chance, as they will fall out of their hiding places when someone flips through a magazine.
This publication project was made possible with the support of the Curating Art program at Stockholm University.
HAIR CLUB: https://hairhairhair.club
Cover Image: Oz Izzet
Book Design: Suzanne Gold