Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark April 24th - May 27th, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles, USA
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark La Brea Residency, Los Angeles, USA April 24th - May 27th, 2016 Opening Reception April 24th, 4-7 pm I can tell you re looking from over there. A street between for the neck to prickle. Flashing trades. But its miles of fibre in-between run out and on. We re wasting, wishes wishing. Sailing in and out of days, through a week, an hour, tomorrow, tomorrow and a day. I guess all the magic we ve known we ve had to make for ourselves. We gave up the night and the day. Bodies left behind their lives in sheets, the carrion strung up new relatives, new living. Picked flesh; left clues for those who needed to know. We didn t, we knew. Mediocrity - contextual. Integrity a neutral value. The stupidity of fortune and beauty. The stupidity of normal people. And on this trade reality polarised; ceasing to believe it - only made it clearer. There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Climbing the late afternoon, I pause at an elevation and take up a position. The tip of my abdomen in the air, circling slowly over into the night, casting for females; pheromones on the breeze. Let s build an escalade, dig ourselves underground; take the body with us. Shining a light creates shadows. Preening the hairs and slowly sculpting the flesh into a ball. We fuck all over, the fluids we lose preserve it all somehow. The need to go astray. Ending up in the corridor, staying awhile there, guarding, guarded. I.L Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, is a two person show by Antoine Donzeaud and Isaac Lythgoe of new works produced at the La Brea Artist s Residency, Los Angeles.The show presents an immersive view of domesticity and desire. It s title taken from Jim Carey s liberated, everyman Stanley Ipkiss, as he lives out his pent up desires as the multifaceted, free speaking, Mask. Works are utilised as dividers and furnishings, hierarchy s regress. Donzeaud s broken window paintings are John Divola in 3D and at once a nod to architectural redevelopment in progress. A bed, a snug, a lamp, chair, fruit bowl We are in a surrealist Home Depot. Lythgoe s two sleeping Michael Jackson s appear tucked up behind silk sheets. They are dreams of success and a posterised homage. A ladybug love nest acts out life s cycles and interactions in real time. Forming relationships, eating, sleeping. Demarcations of space are reminiscent of the sprawling scenes in Lars Von Trier s Dogville, or MTV Cribs Snapchat rebirth. Part set, part stage, lines are walls and between them the echoes of desirous habitation. The La Brea Residency 144 N La Brea Ave Los Angeles 90036
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Antoine Donzeaud I m number one on your speed dial, 2016 Plywood, acrylic, resin, spray paint, polythene, oil on canvas 202 x 95 cm
Isaac Lythgoe All the magic we ve known we have to make it for ourselves, 2016 Plywood, Naugahyde, neon fixture, fake flowers, ladybugs, torch 202 x 95 cm
Isaac Lythgoe All the magic we ve known we have to make it for ourselves, detail, 2016 Plywood, Naugahyde, neon fixture, fake flowers, ladybugs, torch 202 x 95 cm
Antoine Donzeaud Not the loquacious sort, 2016 Plywood, acrylic, resin, spray paint, polythene 175 x 95 cm
Antoine Donzeaud Old people love me, 2016 Plywood, acrylic, resin, spray paint, polythene 175 x 95 cm
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Antoine Donzeaud You got to stop putting bacon on your list, 2016 Plywood, acrylic, resin, spray paint, polythene, oil on canvas 202 x 95 cm
Isaac Lythgoe The stupidity of fortune and beauty, 2016 UV print on PVC and silk 66 x 133 cm
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view
Isaac Lythgoe Wasting, wishes, wishing, 2016 UV print on PVC and silk 50 x 97 cm Antoine Donzeaud Untitled (Longing), 2016 Mannequin hands, silicon Variable dimensions
Antoine Donzeaud Untitled (Longing), 2016 Mannequin hands, silicon Variable dimensions
Antoine Donzeaud Untitled (Longing), 2016 Mannequin hands, silicon Variable dimensions
Antoine Donzeaud Untitled (Her Curves), 2016 Plywood, gauze, thumbtacks 202 x 95 cm
Hold me closer Ed it s getting dark, 2016 La Brea Residency, Los Angeles - Installation view