Artists: Artun Alaska Arasli and Brendan Jaks
Exhibition title: The Elephant In Te Shipping Room (Simply Wild)
Venue: Jenifer Nails, Frankfurt, Germany
Date: June 13 – July 25, 2015
Photography: Images courtesy of the artists and Jenifer Nails, Frankfurt
Yesterday the reason why
Assholes were removed from one’s vision
Was body’s perfection
But what keeps us going is anything but pretty, Theodor
My uncle fell on a saw once
A true anonymity is a good anonymity
First chicken, best chicken
Take your beige and bathe your children in it
My city is a city of one’s own and although our altitudes mismatch
I hope you’re comfortable on your high horse
With your head up your ass Theo
Remember this
I was below the water but I didn’t drown
/
The axis is your tender belly button with a little mosquito bite above it
Here is your ornament M
I’m hauling boulders and bayonets at you to see what sticks
It was never only kill or be killed in this world, look here
I don’t come to you in peace. I don’t come to you in hostility
Basically I just don’t come at all
/
I’m sitting at my drawing desk
Trying to figure out if I’m in love
Fuck your drug-free zone
I’m walking in intervals to the window
You do not know what I’m talking about when I say I don’t have another plan
Here in your presence, shouts out to my crack pipe
We must often paint in the colors that are the colors of a bruised skin
The knuckles are like hazelnuts wrapped in a beige foil
I’m not thirteen and hurting
I walk over to the window to
Look at the shipyard
A ship is leaving the harbour so suddenly
Do you think it got mad at me?
Artun Alaska Arasli, Fold Study, 2015 (floor)
Artun Alaska Arasli, The Day After You Die Double Babe, 2015
Brendan Jaks, Borrowing happiness from tomorrow (@kaiserpassage), 2015
Artun Alaska Arasli, Hands With Projects, 2015
Artun Alaska Arasli, Gargoyles In The Weather, 2015
Brendan Jaks, Cold/Spring [road trip] (thanks a lot), 2015 (left)
Artun Alaska Arasli, Hands In The Hearsay, 2015
Brendan Jaks, Borrowing happiness from tomorrow (@Leidseplein), 2015
Artun Alaska Arasli, Leistikow Deathmask, 2015
Artun Alaska Arasli, Where U From, 2015
Brendan Jaks, Cry like a parrot, lol like an ape (@bahnhofsviertel), 2015
Brendan Jaks, Bitter lemon macaroon (@dam square), 2015 (left)
Artun Alaska Arasli, Leistikow’s Spazzing Bush, 2015
Brendan Jaks, Capricious Monotone(s) 1, 2015
Artun Alaska Arasli, Knivestad 1, 2015
Brendan Jaks, Capricious Monotone(s) 2, 2015
Artun Alaska Arasli, Knivestad 2, 2015