Abby Lloyd “A Slight Touch”
Cleopatra's
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Cleopatra’s presents a solo exhibition by New York based artist, Abby Lloyd. Staged in a setting suggestive of a massage parlor, A Slight Touch, includes a series of video works depicting scenes of curated perversions.
One video in the group, Baby Wonderland, appropriates found footage of John Mayer performing an unplugged version of Your Body is a Wonderland spliced with clips of various diaper commercials. Challenging social conventions, Lloyd uses the viewer’s own culturally constructed beliefs against themselves. A mother’s caress is turned on its head against the backdrop of Mayer’s pseudo sexual anthem. And so follows suit with other included videos such as Hippie Gunge, in which a long haired man sways seductively under a downpour of oats, yogurt, and blueberries. Thick and gooey, the happy hippie enjoys getting slimed by the staples of his health food diet. While the viewer understands the gunge as food, it still elicits a stomach-turning reaction. Lloyd’s videos conflate pleasure and discomfort by relocating ordinarily wholesome substances and behaviors within “indecent” scenarios. The theatrical staging in a massage parlor is ripe for the bending limits of public social agreements and private fetishistic explorations.
Inside the massage parlor the rules boldly state “No Hanky Panky”, however, Lloyd invites the viewer to, “surrender to sensation, feel a slight touch, let it melt down into your naval, indulge in ambient satisfaction, touch softness and experience pleasure from all things”.
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Schedule
from June 21, 2015 to July 27, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-06-21 from 18:00 to 21:00