Lucus Ajemian and Julien Bismuth "Les Lettres Tristes"
Foxy Production
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Foxy Production presents Les Lettres Tristes, a collaboration between New York-based artists Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth that investigates the creative potential of detours through language, action and image. Taking the experience of distraction as their starting point, the artists discursively explore the experience of being diverted from one's train of thought.
Les Lettres Tristes (The Sad Letters) refers to the Lettristes, the members of the avant-garde group, established in mid-century Paris, who used letters, hieroglyphics and other graphic symbols to create wildly experimental films, poetry, and art-works. Like a snapshot of Lettrisme itself, the exhibition combines key features of a number of Modernist movements, including Abstractionism, Dada, and Situationism, to generate a constellation of inter-related writing, video and objects.
Les Lettres Tristes' many elements are distilled within a weekly journal incorporating the words and images of a number of invited artists and writers. Surrounding these growing stacks of papers, the exhibition comprises a directional audio work of recorded excerpts from the journals, a double screen performance video, minimalist sculptures, a series of text and image-based wall pieces, an alphabetical animation, and a table covered with diagrams and plans.
Central to the exhibition is a yet to be made collaborative film. Still in the conceptual stage, it ties all the elements in the gallery together.
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Schedule
from November 21, 2008 to January 10, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-11-21 from 18:00 to 20:00