January 12 - February 24, 2018
117, rue Veille du Temple - 75003 Paris
AUDITION/6:40 AM Audition/6:40 AM returns me to an on going theme of interest explored in previous works, the artist as predator (the noun): an animal that […]
AUDITION/6:40 AM
Audition/6:40 AM returns me to an on going theme of interest explored in previous works, the artist as predator (the noun): an animal that naturally preys on others.
Seduced by the sunrise occuring outside my window at the foot of the bed at approximately 6:40 AM, with at the same time, IPhone in hand, I took pause on the most beautiful profile picture I had ever seen.
I just need to say you are beautiful. I messaged him. And sent my photo. We started a conversation that led back to my purposely-provocative opening line. Further along in the conversation, he asked, What made you say that? I responded, “Want to get a coffee?”
He is an actor and on his way to an audition we met for a coffee. We chatted for an hour and made plans to meet again.
I wondered if I had inadvertanly walked into an audition of my own.
This new work is the result of that meeting and unaware to him, or even me at that very moment, I had found the subject of this new body of work. If as Jean-Luc Godard says “Cinema is truth twenty-four frames per second”, I was about to become this actor’s biggest fan, which thus gave me a narrative. A mash up, a jump-cut, an assembly of photographs, drawings and video that expose my compulsive desire to flirt with, and objectify the subject. The final piece in the exhibit is a short film, an audition, his audition and mine.
Past Exhibition
AUDITION / 6/40 AM
January 12 - February 24, 2018
117, rue Veille du Temple - 75003 Paris