KARL DOYLE

KARL DOYLE /// SECRET DESIRES

“Secret Desires” a four year long study, is a conceptual juxtaposition of one of todays subculture’s and the erotic world of the 1930s Weimar Berlin. Focusing on the return of the corset or the practice of tight-lacing along with the popularity of latex, KARL DOYLE choose to use these elements as his medium to contrast his subjects and to define the beauty of the constrained anatomy. The black and white images hold a vintage quality, evoking the past although reflecting the present as they meander through different scenarios of visual play for the viewer to anticipate.

Karl Doyle lives and works both in Tokyo and New York.

☁ KARL DOYLE

TRICIA CLINE

TRICIA CLINE /// EXILES IN LOWER UTOPIA

"My most recent body of work, Exiles in Lower Utopia, is an ode to the Animal, its ability to perceive, and our return to that perception. An animal is its very form. Its function is its form. A wolf runs at full speed, a distinct scent or sound alters its direction. The legs, the nose, the ears of the wolf are its function, its bliss. When an animal recognizes another animal it reads with an instinctual eye the character in the form— the essential nature in the form before it. Its text is not a mental concept about what it’s looking at but a full-bodied awareness of the shape, smell, movement, and stance of the image in front of it. The language of animals is the language of images. An image is not an idea with a defined meaning, it is itself an animal.

This is the ode—to reconnect with our own animal perception. To go beyond the limited mental concepts of who we think we are, to an awareness of oneself that is infinitely more vast.

The Exiles migrate between the human world and the animal world and carry this awareness on their backs. They are the silent embodiment of this Quest. They understand the language of animals and are self-appointed ambassadors from that world. They are firmly seated, in the language of animals, the language of imagery. They have succeeded by virtue of being." (TRICIA CLINE)


☁ TRICIA CLINE

MU BOYAN

MU BOYAN
Born in Jinan, Jinan Province, 1976

EDUCATION
1997 Graduated from the Fine Arts School of Central Academy of Fine Arts
2002 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts
2005 Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts with master's degree


☁ MU BOYAN @ ARTNET
☁ MU BOYAN @ AYE GALLERY

MICHAEL FERRIS JR.

A new show for MICHAEL FERRIS JR. @ the GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY IN NEW YORK.

OPENING IS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 FROM 6PM TO 8PM.
The show runs from November 4 to December 30, 2010


☁ MICHAEL FERRIS JR.
☁ GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY
☁ MICHAEL FERRIS JR. PREVIOUSLY ON LE ZÈBRE

TARA INANLOO

"TARA INANLOO is sitting in a cafe in London. Small, slim and sobbing, she is 21 and an Iranian feminist activist and photographer. Inanloo arrived in Britain in 2008 to study photography at Nottingham Trent University. Inspired by the work of Cindy Sherman, she photographed herself in different disguises – as a Wag, as a bluestocking, as an innocent, as a whore. "I represent the different Iranian women that I discover inside myself," she says. "Disguising is what Iranians grow up with. Disguising is the most important part of my life. I grew up drowning in lies and dishonesty. It is not easy to grow up pretending to be a non-existent creature. You always have to lie. But I have always tried to be an outlaw and cross the boundaries."

And so some of the photographs are nudes. In one, wearing lipstick and pearls, she looks like Marilyn Monroe. The victim of one patriarchy wanted to look like the victim of another. They are called Illegal Images, a joke with a terrible punchline, because the Iranian secret police were tipped off and they arrived at her father's home, waving the photographs. Meanwhile a fellow feminist activist, who collected Inanloo's work, has been arrested.

So if you go back home, I ask, do you think will you be arrested? "No," she says simply, "I think I will be executed. I could never imagine a day when I would not be able to go back to Iran. I have just been making artworks that represent my beliefs." So she has applied for asylum. I hope the British government can find space for Tara Inanloo and all the Tara Inanloos within her. "(TEXT BY TANYA GOLD FOR THE GUARDIAN)


☁ TARA INANLOO