....KYLE ALDEN MARTENS | SPUN THROUGH THE HEEL | 25 APRIL – 1 JUNE 2024

Kyle Alden Martens’ first solo exhibition with Patel Brown presents a boudoir of seductive forms and textures […]. With a queer-tinted sense of artifice, Martens works intimately with leather, silk, wood, jewellery, and other materials. His work speaks to the perennial quest to “fit in” and the universal desire to find a place – metaphorical and literal – for oneself.

• excerpt from the exhibition text by Jon Davies

..KYLE ALDEN MARTENS | SPUN THROUGH THE HEEL | 25 AVRIL – 1 JUIN 2024

Dans le cadre de sa première exposition solo à Patel Brown, Kyle Alden Martens présente un boudoir de formes et de textures séduisantes […]. Selon un sens de l’artifice teinté de l’influence queer, Martens travaille intimement avec des matières comme le cuir, la soie, le bois et les bijoux. Sa pratique témoigne de notre envie perpétuelle de « s’intégrer » et du désir universel de trouver une place – métaphorique et littérale – pour soi.

• extrait du texte d’exposition par Jon Davies

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....ANIQUE JORDAN | UNDERBELLY | 16 MAY - 15 JUNE 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17 (6pm-8pm)

Underbelly is a study in ways of seeing that explores the methodological, embodied, and aesthetic impulses at the root of Anique Jordan’s practice. 

Armed with the iconic quote, “another world is not only possible…she is on her way”, from Arundhati Roy’s Capitalism: A Ghost Story, and with the urgency behind the failures of colonial and capitalist projects, the artist has become invested in not only considering what other worlds might indeed be on the horizon but also exploring ways in which we can see other worlds that have always lived simultaneously amongst us. Jordan turns to Black surrealisms, Afro-Caribbean spiritual practices, and the  body as sources of knowledge to recognize ways of knowing that have been disallowed but protected.

Jordan is specifically interested in rituals, dreams, codes, glitches, and mythology as sites of these other worlds. The artist seeks methods of discovery that invoke the imagination as a tool to see what otherwise has been cloaked or rendered an impossibility.

..ANIQUE JORDAN | UNDERBELLY | 16 MAI - 15 JUIIN 2024

(Texte anglais uniquement disponible)

Underbelly is a study in ways of seeing that explores the methodological, embodied, and aesthetic impulses at the root of Anique Jordan’s practice. 

Armed with the iconic quote, “another world is not only possible…she is on her way”, from Arundhati Roy’s Capitalism: A Ghost Story, and with the urgency behind the failures of colonial and capitalist projects, the artist has become invested in not only considering what other worlds might indeed be on the horizon but also exploring ways in which we can see other worlds that have always lived simultaneously amongst us. Jordan turns to Black surrealisms, Afro-Caribbean spiritual practices, and the  body as sources of knowledge to recognize ways of knowing that have been disallowed but protected.

Jordan is specifically interested in rituals, dreams, codes, glitches, and mythology as sites of these other worlds. The artist seeks methods of discovery that invoke the imagination as a tool to see what otherwise has been cloaked or rendered an impossibility.

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....Raúl AguiLar Canela | Smart like a sun | 16 MAY - 15 JUNE 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17 (6pm-8pm)

Smart like a sun is a collection of abstract drawings situated in the emergence of new domesticity practices as a contemporary condition of living at the turn of post-pandemic times matching a 2024 solar eclipse momentum. 

The drawings of Smart like a sun, unfold from a practice of ‘thought without an image’ (Gilles Deleuze); which is a terrain of experience moving in the realm of pleasure of just doing that vehemently asks not to be disturbed by the moment in which a word cuts out its ectasis by holding it prey to a standing point of fixity. It asks to remain in pure flow and ‘pure experience’ (William James) so that it can feel that, the joy of pure shape and intensive colorality amassed by, if you look closely, an extremely precise dexterity and expertise of meticulous texturized pressure. Carefully cultivated technique and skill is not aside.

• excerpt from the exhibition text by Mayra Morales

..Raúl AguiLar Canela | Smart like a sun  | 16 MAI - 15 JUIIN 2024

(Texte anglais uniquement disponible)

Smart like a sun is a collection of abstract drawings situated in the emergence of new domesticity practices as a contemporary condition of living at the turn of post-pandemic times matching a 2024 solar eclipse momentum. 

The drawings of Smart like a sun, unfold from a practice of ‘thought without an image’ (Gilles Deleuze); which is a terrain of experience moving in the realm of pleasure of just doing that vehemently asks not to be disturbed by the moment in which a word cuts out its ectasis by holding it prey to a standing point of fixity. It asks to remain in pure flow and ‘pure experience’ (William James) so that it can feel that, the joy of pure shape and intensive colorality amassed by, if you look closely, an extremely precise dexterity and expertise of meticulous texturized pressure. Carefully cultivated technique and skill is not aside.

• excerpt from the exhibition text by Mayra Morales

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