Solomon Garçon: sunset beach

6 Oct-10 Nov 2024

Overview

This exhibition takes the form of the production fragments of a pilot TV show. Mood board, mise-en-scene tests, draft rehearsals. It remains unclear how the different sets, sites and scenes are connected, if they are at all.

A close crop of David Attenborough’s wax work hand against his upper thigh at Madame Tussaud’s. An image of a top tossed across a leather sofa is cropped to double as the landscape of a torso.

The boundaries of intimacy and anonymity are squeezed and our understandings of them reshaped in the cultures of app hook-ups.

An architectural intervention in the gallery wall references a previously used boarded up hole-the perfect icon for the dualities of fleeting encounters. Buried in the shallow crevice is a sound work that tests vocal transmissions from unnamed characters yet to be introduced in the show.

Two offsite performances that are screen tests for the pilot extend the exhibition beyond the gallery walls.

Solomon Garçon (b.1991, London), is an artist based in London. Recent exhibitions include his first institutional exhibition in the UK, ARMS at Studio Voltaire (2023); Solomon’s Knock with Samuel Hindolo at Galerie Bucholz, Berlin (2023); and S N I T C H at Rose Easton, London (2022).

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