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'Snooze' by Sharif Farrag at in lieu, Los Angeles

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Sharif Farrag, Catching goldfish, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Bodach spiral with keychains, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Split face jar, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Split face jar, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Split face jar, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Garden jar (donut), 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Bodach and Idea bats, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Etiwanda cavern, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Catching idea bats, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Big arm jar with railing, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Climber, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Untitled, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, A scented present, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Puddle, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Melancholy piano, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Blue hand jar with railing, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, It’s always hot on my side of town, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Tonsal jar, 2019
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Sharif Farrag, Garden jar (squideater), 2019

The TV is telling me things.

In a room full of people and all the shadows are demons.

SNOOZE

Bodach is the shadow I drew. 

It’s a friend, but..

SNOOZE

Peeking out my window, sitting on my bed with idea bats...

can I just continue to dig this hole? 

SNOOZE

That was kinda fast… but I think you can kinda feel it.

Snooze brings together a collection of over two dozen of Farrag’s recent ceramic works. Flowers and phalluses ooze and undulate from the an assortment of vessels, figurative sculptures, and glazed paintings. On first glance, Farrag’s work is innocent and uplifting. The stoneware is thrown together with a determined sloppiness that underpins the artist’s playful attitude. But the more time you spend in this garden, the more its darkness is revealed. Bodach, a squatted devilish trickster, lurks in the corner of the gallery and glares out over the space. It’s always hot on my side of town, a speckled sun that shares Bodach’s menacing grin, is perched high above the rest of the exhibition and casts its own freakish gaze over the work. These two pieces, much like the rest of the work in Snooze, find a sweet spot where manic meets whimsy.

23.2.19 — 23.3.19

in lieu

'ABSINTHE', Group Show Curated by PLAGUE at Smena, Kazan

'Pupila' by Elizabeth Burmann Littin at Two seven two gallery, Toronto

'Auxiliary Lights' by Kai Philip Trausenegger at Bildraum 07, Vienna

'Inferno' by Matthew Tully Dugan at Lomex, New York

'Зamok', Off-Site Group Project at dentistry Dr. Blumkin, Moscow

'Dog, No Leash', Group Show at Spazio Orr, Brescia

'Syllables in Heart' by Thomas Bremerstent at Salgshallen, Oslo

'Out-of-place artifact', Off-Site Project by Artem Briukhov in Birsk Fortress, Bi

'Gardening' by Daniel Drabek at Toni Areal, Zurich

'HALF TRUTHS', Group Show at Hackney Road, E2 8ET, London

'Unknown Unknowns' by Christian Roncea at West End, The Hague

'Thinking About Things That Are Thinking' by Nicolás Lamas at Meessen De Clercq,

‘Funny / Sad’, Group Show by Ian Bruner, Don Elektro & Halo, curated by Rhizome P

'Don’t Die', Group Show at No Gallery, New York

'Almost Begin' by Bronson Smillie at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'I'll Carry Your Heart's Gray Wing with a Trembling Hand to My Old Age', Group Sh

'hapy like a fly' by Clément Courgeon at Colette Mariana, Barcelona

'Fear of the Dark' by Jack Evans at Soup, London

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