Artist: Behrang Karimi, Bracha L. Ettinger, Brook Hsu, Caitlin MacQueen, Diane Severin Nguyen, Hervé Guibert, Joseph Yaeger, Maggie Friedman
Exhibition title: Sweet Days of Discipline
Venue: Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Date: July 16 – August 20, 2022
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
In our lives at school, each of us, if we had a little vanity, would establish a facade, a kind of double life, affect a way of speaking, walking, looking. When I saw her writing I couldn’t believe it. We almost all had the same kind of handwriting, uncertain, childish, with round, wide ‘o’s. Hers was completely affected. (Twenty years later I saw something similar in a dedication Pierre Jean Jouve had written on a copy of Kyrie.) Of course I pretended not to be surprised, I barely glanced at it. But secretly I practiced. And I still write like Frédérique today, and people tell me I have beautiful, interesting handwriting. *
A reader, in collaboration with des pair books will be printed on the occasion of the exhibition. * Jaeggy, Fleur. Sweet Days of Discipline, New Directions Books, New York, 2019, p. 3.
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022, exhibition view, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Behrang Karimi, Motivvermeidung, 2020, Oil on canvas, 37 1/8 x 35 3/8 inches (94 x 90 cm)
Behrang Karimi, crumbled and covered, 2021, Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches (65 x 60 cm)
Behrang Karimi, Juliet & Romeo, 2022, Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (40 x 30 cm)
Behrang Karimi, Nocturne affection, 2020-2022, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 37 3/8 inches (90 x 95 cm)
Behrang Karimi, Theory of a Woman ́s Back, 2021, Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 33 1/8 inches (64.5 x 84 cm)
Behrang Karimi, versunken (stoisch), 2009, Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (70 x 50 cm)
Caitlin MacQueen, Danse le Réve (Bowie Night), 2022, Oil and oil stick on canvas, Overall dimensions: 96 x 120 inches (243.8 x 304.8 cm)
Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydica – Pieta, 2015 – 2017, India Ink, watercolor, carbon toner, photocopic pigment and ashes on paper Paper dimensions: 9 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches (25 x 34 cm)
Maggie Friedman, Untitled (Novel, pages 37-38), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 50 inches (182.9 x 127 cm)
Diane Severin Nguyen, Confession of a Mask, 2021, LightJet C-print, steel frame with museum glass 25 x 20 inches (63.5 x 50.8 cm)
Diane Severin Nguyen, As if it’s your last, 2021, LightJet C-print, steel frame with museum glass 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Joseph Yaeger, Darkness is not empty, 2022 Watercolor on gessoed canvas 16.54 x 14.17 (42 x 36 cm)
Hervé Guibert, Tableau et fenêtre, Villa Médicis, 1988-89 Vintage silver-gelatin print, Image: 5.787 × 8.819 inches (14.7 × 22.4 cm)
Joseph Yaeger, Cupid with a machete, 2022 Watercolor on gessoed linen, 17.32 x 14.17 inches (44 x 36 cm)
Brook Hsu, Girl with Oranges, 2022, Ink on canvas, 70.87 x 78.74 inches (180 x 200 cm)