“La Zone” - Au Pays des Chiffonniers, 1928 dir. Georges Lacombe
found video without sound, 15min, exhibition text
from group exhibition The Video Show - I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one, Podium/K4, Oslo, May 2023

Lacombe sets the French metropole within a digestive schema, where rag pickers, chiffonniers, perform the disjunctive functions at the cell wall, the city limit from which the film takes its name. By depicting what poet Henri Michaux would come to call ‘life in the folds’, Paris is understood according to the ‘characteristic asymmetry’ of living organisms, a theme taken up by philosopher of science Gilbert Simondon. La Zone illuminates and politicises this asymmetry: the intensely manual waste sorting, done ad-hoc by a named class of people, is posed against the mechanised final processing, mastered and administered by the state. The asymmetry is rendered all the more stark by the vividly humanised chiffonniers - their culture, companionship, solidarity and enjoyment silently roll over us, lavishly anticipating iconic documentary works such as Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I (2000). In the context of the climate crisis, fuelled by what Bernard Stiegler terms anthropic macroeconomic models, the modern day chiffonniers - highly visible, typically contracted-out municipal waste workers or incarcerated people on day release - intercede as the good angels of neganthropy, making order out of anthropogenic chaos. Yet, is the enactment of ordering, by methods bluntly unchanged since one century, merely enabling chaos?

Stills from Time Piece, 66min durational performance with five channel sound, in collaboration with Nikhil Vettukattil
from Between IV: The Secret of Futility at Kunstverein München, Nov 2022

Clip from Time Piece, Kunstverein München, Nov 2022
Opposite: process image, model and solution

Installation view:, a$S1S2: Truth, Agent, Other, Product
repurposed iris valve, 44 x 33cm
from The House that Mom Built group show at svntos32, London, Oct 2022

a$S1S2 Truth, Agent, Other, Product is the second in a series of redeployments of this industrial object (previously it was cast as Platonov's Anti-Sexus, a universal masturbation device that also secures the spiritual pacification of being in a relationship). At svntos32 it was made into a different thing: a portal to the sun. The sun! That generous mother, with her infinite hospitality. But wait, barred subject.. petit a.. it hisses something. Oh sorry that is the sound of the discourse. Turn by 90° to change discourses. All the way clockwise and the sun rears up, right in the middle. You can get in, too. Let its volutes slide over your head.

Installation view:, a$S1S2: Truth, Agent, Other, Product
from The House that Mom Built group show at svntos32, London, Oct 2022

Detail views of beer-chimneys; apprêt gris, texture paint, food-safe coating, 500mL beer can (LECH); edition of 20

Installation view: IMG_20220520_140644494.MP (left) and IMG_20201003_010304 (right)
42 x 52cm double sided Direct Print on 3mm Dibond
from [redacted solo show], London, 2022

Sample page from [redacted], 2022
Exhibition catalogue for [redacted solo show] with catalogue essay by [redacted], 40 pages
Issued to coincide with the Artists’ Self Publishing Fair, Conway Hall, London, July 2022

The Parasite, single channel video with sound, 3m57s
from group exhibition This house is not a home at Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, July 2020

He was having a bad time with his eyes in the spring, single channel video with sound, 5min57s
from Group Show 2020, Le Bourgeois, London, July 2020

Installation view: He was having a bad time with his eyes in the spring
from Group Show 2020, Le Bourgeois, London, July 2020