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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

'Meadowlands' by Max Capus and Mat Mancini at Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago

'CHARLES MANSON, TIMOTHY LEARY & THE RATS OF NIMH', Group Show at 4649 Gallery, T

'Fantastic Epiphany' by Malwine Stauss & Naiyun Yang at La Felce, Cologne

'Corporate values by Misha Gudwin at Supermetall, Moscow

'Ashes to Lashes, Dust to Lust', Group Show at GROVE, Berlin

'Victim of Cosmetics' by Claire Barrow in a repurposed office space, London

'Digital Anomalies' by Nicolás Lamas at FORM, Wageningen

'IT'S DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN SO I STAY QUIET' by Lukas Glinkowski at Galería Fran R

'The place that can never be' by Anna Taganzeva at Plague Space, Krasnodar

'Chocolate Goblin' by Travis John Ficarra at Glasshouse, Victoria

'MILITARY POP', Group Show at Spas Setun, Moscow

TARGET GROUP SHOW, conceived by Hannes Schmidt at BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne

'DISTIRA' by Irati Inoriza at Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca

'Underground Memorandum' by Richard Nikl at Shore, Vienna

'All Watched Over by Emissaries of Loving Grace' by Louis Morlæ at Duarte Sequeir

'itsanosofadog *It’s an arse of a dog' by Amanda Moström, Rose Easton, London

'Deceiving players' by Rimma Arslanov at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna

'Sizzling Hot' by Rosa Lüders at 14a, Hamburg

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