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Roger Ballen
Fábio Magalhães
Simen Johan
Sophie Jodoin
Jesse Draxler
Louise Herman
Yuko Mishimata
Antony Micallef
Rory Hamovit
Asger Carlsen
Pyuupiru
Alison Brady
Miriam Cahn
Kye Christensen-Knowles
Peter Beste
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Roger Ballen Various, 2008 – 2017
photography
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Fábio Magalhães Various, 2008 – 2013
paintings
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Simen Johan And Nothing was to be Trusted, 1994
Toned gelatin silver prints
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Sophie Jodoin Various, 2006 – 2012
drawings
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Jesse Draxler Various, 2013 – 2021
collage
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Louise Herman Various 2009- 2015
painting
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Yuko Mishimata Untitled, 2014
digital render
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Antony Micallef Various, 2011 – 2018
charcoal on paper
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Rory Hamovit Various, 2020
photography
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Asger Carlsen Various, 2004 – 2012
digitally manipulated images
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Pyuupiru Selfportraits, 2005 – 2007
A mountain climber that has rotted away
A cake maker tricks and poisons
A 12-year-old boy bearing scars
A boy that has been beaten and threatened
A clown that has been abused
A surgeon who sells skin
A demon murderer cerebrating a ritual
An ecstatic drug addict
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Alison Brady Various, 2007 – 2014
photography
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Miriam Cahn Various, 2010 – 2013
drawings
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Kye Christensen-Knowles Various, 2020 -2021
oil and graphite on canvas
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Peter Beste Various, 2008
photography
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p.s. Hey. ** Ilán, Hi. Well, of course. I can concur that things that happen to you that seem so minor that they barely register can end up being more crucial than the things to which you are attentive. Fascinating how the mind can circumvent one’s perceptions. Enjoy. See you ere long. ** Sarah Palmer, Oh, me too, I’m thrilled by what the students are doing, especially coming from the US where rebellions mostly get swallowed up by people’s iPhones. I didn’t end up going to PI (yet). I got sideswiped by the grand opening of my favorite Paris bookstore After8 in its new location which turned out to be marathon. The Wooster Group is sold out? Oh, no. I missed the window. And they’re doing one of their great pieces, ‘Symphony of Rats’. That sucks. Ah, thanks. I’m loving this chilly weather, which is making all the possibilities feel so warm. You? ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff. Great to see you! Wonderful about the post. Thanks so much, man! The restored ‘The Devils’ isn’t here yet. I can only imagine it’ll get here. So curious. Even in its truncated form, I remember it being Russells’ seeming best film by kind of far. All good with you? Sure hope so. ** Adem Berbic, Hi. ‘TMS’ the most ketty of my novels … hm, makes a certain sense, I suppose. Sure, why not? Well, but maybe your redo would only increase your friend’s high opinion of the piece? They only know what you gave them, not how it could alter upwards and onwards? I’ve never shown my fiction to anyone until I think it’s complete and I’m confident of it, the one exception being a time I stupidly read part of ‘God Jr.’ when it was in-progress at reading. The audience was very enthusiastic in a way that made me think they were like that because the work didn’t have my usual sex/violence/drugs/etc. stuff in it and they were relieved or something. And a few people there were very critical of it, again seemingly because it was so different. Anyway, it confused me so much that I stopped working on the novel for a year afterwards. So, never again. It’s gloomy here, but in the most invigorating way. No fires, but quite possibly starting tomorrow. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Well, it was very family friendly, which maybe the French think something like Halloween needs to be? Definitely not up to US standards in any way. But, like I said, the Parc Asterix Halloween makeover, which I’ll be checking out soon, is pretty US-style. Or it was last year. Yeah, very strange phrase. I thought love might be able to pull it off. I sort of think of all religious movements as cults, but I’m such a non-believer. Love Suffering a Witch to Live, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Lovely daydream there, fellow revolutionary wannabe! ** kitchencountertop, Hi, welcome. Nice to meet you. I know, the Kren/Tscherkassky tete-a-tete, such a score. I have seen a Bruce McClure projector performance, yes. In 2012 here in Paris. I think it was called ‘Scratch, Expanded’. It was amazing. He’s doing a number of them at the Rotterdam Film Festival next January, and I’m really tempted to go up there for that. Have you seen one? Thoughts? Thanks, cool to get to confer. ** Steve Erickson, Nice that your remix will be on an EP. Curious to hear it. Let me know what you think of the William Greaves. There seems to be a rise of interest in his work lately. Maybe his films got restored? ** laura w., ‘Rainbow Stories’ is my favorite Vollman. Although I think he’s always super interesting. I think his fiction is easily as good as his non-fiction. I only checked out the online ‘Backrooms’-related stuff after I saw the film, and it made me think less of the film. I think I have to totally agree with you in theory. I feel the same way about turning novels into films. There’s talk of republishing my early poetry books going on right now, but not ‘The Weaklings XL’ that I know of. That would be really nice. I was actually writing fairly decent poetry by that point. Thank you for wanting. ** HaRpEr //, Thanks for lifting yourself out of the chaos, and I’m so sorry to hear that about your surroundings. Oh, yeah, ‘Studying Hunger’ is great. Nice you’re reading it. It’s kind of her masterpiece maybe. Life improving vibes if such things exist. ** Uday, Hi. Yes the blog has a timeout problem sometimes. Don’t know why. It does that to me too more than occasionally. It’s a hassle, but if you’re leaving a long comment, you might write it in a doc or something first and then copy and paste. That might help? Sorry. ** Okay. More Halloween-relative stuff for you today. Note to Halloween naysayers: it’ll all be over in a week. See you tomorrow.
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Always First <3 Amazing selection of artists. Please Daddy Stop One, uhmm… SO GOOD. This one activates another region of the brain for sure, because it’s not just curiosity and pleasure but shock, I guess. And it only gets worse, oh man.
I do appreciate relentless art as much as more contained work, like Asger Carlsen’s, whose work I love. Thank you for delivering range.
My conversations with neuroscientists are going great, but I’m also afraid of getting too scattered in trying to develop a deeper understanding. It's like looking at the process of trying to comprehend from the outside. It’s a good state to be in xx. See you soon-ish 🙂
i love everything about this post!
Good morning Dennis! This morning I feel real! As I was walking around my neighborhood, 6am golden hour this morning the Earth spoke to me dearly for the first time in a good minute and I decided to skip out on philosophy club and stay home to reground myself with my own human nature. I have personally decided I love to have as much alone time and solitude as I can, being around people constantly drains me and anyways impulse and recklessness can definitely exist within intervals but its also best to have a balance and
Sort of like “Hyperballad” which is why I love BJork .
There are things I miss, as I have sacrified them to my home departure
(Imagine The kiss by Judee Sill playing)
My piano time!
My reading time!
My writing!
My energy!
My identity…..
SIgh…
im being dramatic…anyways…I desire a New Orleans or Europe trip.
Ive kindve been missing hedonism tho, which is my favorite thing: Solitude with inteverals of chaos, time of reflection. Anyways it gives me more time to plan trips and is preffering solitude a a bad thing? I guess its about making the most of when you do go out in terms of genuine connection as well as making connections and getting insight
ANyways today is the first dayI was able to get up at 4am instead of later which makes me happy as that is a habit I deeply value as a writer and artist and overall it gives me time to think and collect myslef. I think putting myself out there has caused this mental drain which is why I value homebody reflection. Besides its fucking fall and october!! My time of reflection and harvestful folk music. Any favorite outsider folk music? Or, ya know, something weird and a bit “out there”. I love that stuff. Are you a fan of Judee Sill?
Well I am very ecstatic right now, as an instagram post inspired me to learn the piano part in pink moon which I cried as I played it this early morning because it fractured this hard shell of insecurity ive been feeling and reinvigorated my creative flow and desire to piano and music as ive been so lost in my identity as an artist + the people aorund me. (which is why I spend today regrounding) Anyways I think, well you know, that Nick Drake is one of those “This person saved me” artists In the way I suppose FIona Apple and Jeff Buckley are to other people ( I definitly had that moment with Elliot Smith in higschool) although I also add that ive not yet had this moment with Jeff Buckley, although ive had it with TIm BUckley, as you know, and it’s one of those things you cycle through the seasons of saviors as during summer Tori Amos really got me through alot which was supplimented by the fact I was taking piano classes.
Will you be going to L.A this halloween? Hopefully I can make a house haunt now that I got my car…although its already the 22nd…yikes.
I think I remember this gallery’s debut, Dennis. Certainly some familiar favorites here: Roger Ballen, Fábio Magalhães, Asger Carlsen (whose website seems to have disappeared, but he has instagram etc)…
My hands still full around here, making me a bit nervous. But thought I’d jump in and out quickly.
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Wow, a brilliant day again. I like to imagine my grandparents who think that photo-realism is the proper/sole aim of painting, having to submit to Fabio Magalhaes being the greatest of all time according to their own logic.
I’m watching a lot of Cronenberg films with Halloween in the air and all. He’s very hit or miss for me, but when he hits, he hits. I hate his ‘Naked Lunch’ and thought ‘Eastern Promises’ was incredibly boring, but I love ‘Maps to the Stars’ and ‘Videodrome’. His really early stuff like ‘The Brood’ is good too. I think that low budget early stuff is more viscerally squeamish than his later high budget puppetry and models etc., even if less conceptually interesting. There’s this birthing scene in ‘The Brood’ which is brilliant. I love Oliver Reed in a weird way, because he was kind of a terrible actor and so mannered, but with these sudden bursts of alcoholic rage that make him brilliant. Basically every pub in the UK has some old guy in it who apparently remembers Reed doing something insane there.
I actually really like watching ‘Spirited Away’ this time of year because there’s this thing that it focuses on that Halloween is the time of year where the barrier between the spirit/ghost world and the material world is at its thinnest, which I think is very beautiful to think about. I’m someone who likes pretending to believe in ghosts even if I’m basically a non-believer.
Both topical and Halloween – adjacent! Exclusive from the Popbitch showbiz gossip email today: this Human Centipede from the French riots [Macron and Bernard Arnault are two of them]
Fuck the Halloween naysayers. Just blink & the saccharine onslaught of Christmas begins, which I’m dreading slightly less than the midterms. Gotta fuel up on some blood & gloom to make it through those horrors.
Ugh, wifi problems threw me a wrench, so not much progress on the script. Plus other issues. Hopefully the weekend will slow down a bit so I can get back into the groove.
Caught up with a dear SoCal friend at length. She joined a small but smart chorus of friends encouraging me to get on Instagram, specifically to promote my poetry. The idea of having another social media account to manage turns my stomach, but I get that Instagram is where it’s at. What do you think? And correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I’ve heard Insta only makes sense if you’re dedicated to constant engagement, meaning daily posts & what-not.
Anything new on your film front?
Hello. Hm, in my experience, repetitions and patterns and loops are an important part of the K experience, but I remember them having a different character to that of the ones in ‘TMS.’ If I were to assign ‘TMS’ a drug… I might have to think on that. Maybe doing nitrous oxide on acid?
That is a very sage perspective, thank you. I think my brain likes to saddle me with the silly, ‘if this works, it’s a fluke, so don’t risk making it worse.’ But that’s silly. I’d like writing to feel less like a tightrope, which it isn’t, but my brain likes to think otherwise. And I remember you mentioning about the ‘God Jr.’ reading now. Jesus. Do you remember what brought you around to resuming it? Was it, like, ‘I know there’s something in this I need to see through, and I just need to put those reactions aside?’ Or more just giving your certainty and enmeshment in the work-to-be the time it needed to re-emerge?
My favourite above: the third Simen Johan, with the bike. I think it’d take me a lot of soul-searching to articulate why. Of course, the boysplosion is a strong contender too.
Invigorating gloom is a mark which I think London never fails to miss. But it landed on sprightly today, which I’ll take. Oh, where’s the new After8? What’s the verdict?
less than ten days out from halloween! i am going to rocky horror tomorrow so am going to aim to get your stickers out… tomorrow? at lunch? we’ll see if that happens but i believe in myself, maybe.
the nfl is having a game in paris this weekend which i think might be a first? the steelers and the saints. football (specifically the nfl) is my chud interest, though i have no real loyalty to any team. hopefully your going-ons this weekend aren’t too impeded by that or by anything else.
also in much sadder news: catapult press is shutting down, taking with it counterpoint and soft skull. nothing is said about their upcoming catalog or for that matter their back catalog. the loss of soft skull is especially upsetting; they’ve published some really great stuff over the years. they said they were going to sell it, but i guess there’s no actual plans to keep it going as a press even if they do sell it? i know very little about publishing. we’re in such a weird moment with some indie publishers doing seemingly very well and some clearly not- i still don’t entirely know what’s going on with influx press since they sold to someone else.
introduced a friend to swans, who ended up really digging them, specifically the great annihilator which admittedly is pretty accessible as far as swans go, but still. at least a small win for me this week lol.