Samuel Hindolo at 15 Orient

Artist: Samuel Hindolo

Exhibition title: Lip and Neck

Venue: 15 Orient, New York, US

Date: October 24 – December 1, 2020

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and 15 Orient, New York

15 Orient is delighted to present Samuel Hindolo’s debut solo exhibition in New York. In lieu of a press release, the artist commissioned a text by friend and poet Gabrielle Octavia Rucker;

REPLACEMENT

Last night, I gave your name to the breath of a smoking marigold,
I fixed a lapsang sugar to feed the yard, ate candied orange rind in the
street backwards, dreamed a weeping dream from under which you crawled
unlike yourself but whole. I gave your name to 1000 sitting, lullabied on
behalf of 1000 children, riddled against 1000 otherwise who might wish harm—
it’s a gamble relying on flesh, a wrist charm thieved from a crypt will make gossip
to the soul of the burglary: Symbiosis: someone tells someone, Someone
shows up, we feast & the object found must be hidden again, sewn into
the throat of a black ewe & buried not an hour past three.
Kissing, as we did, round back of the pastry shop, the smells of bread always pleasing
to the body of a clay-oven, the male shaped gods boasting about the kitchen making drink while I,
a little more complicated & desiring of brine, go shoreside where the slime will come some many
years from now but today: sea pangolin going inland, a whole nother feeling to soil, the septic
taunting of wetlands & birdlands grown strong in the epoch of prophecy, the end of the pesticide
stag more probable as the island shrinks into itself a Man-made’s dream,
that his life will become treasure at the bottom of the lake: a pair of neverfound arrows
heads housed in amber, in the river two toys bound together by petrified rope.

Samuel Hindolo (b. 1990, Maryland) lives and works in New York, NY. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: “Pedestrian Profanities” at Simon Lee Gallery (2020), “(Nothing But) Flowers” at Karma (2020), “Saint Heron” at the Getty Museum (2019), Chapter NY at Carlos Ishikawa (2019), Deli Gallery (2018), Wysing Arts Centre (2017), and Rosenwald Wolf Gallery (2017).