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'Wet Cookie Floor' by Yannick Val Gesto at Private Viewing

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There’s this beautiful quote I came across a few years ago, that seems relevant:

“Like generations before us, we are trying to forge a connection with the environment, trying to make sense of a world we’ve built but don’t really understand.”

Found this in an issue of Spike Art Magazine, from Ben Vickers or Hans Ulrich Obrist, I don’t know tbh.

Either way, as if life wasn’t complicated and wild enough without Covid-19.

I’ve heard some smart folks comparing this year of “lockdown” with going on retreat.
I can relate to that. It’s been confrontational to say the least.
Trying to let go of expectations.
Trying to let go of the ego.

The ego is fiendish.

I’m grateful for many things in my life.
Being able to push out this project is one of them.

(No such thing as a wet cookie floor.)
(Art documentation has become overly fetishized.)
(I used some textures from the game DOOM (1993).)
(Thank god for videogames.)
(Thank god for love, friends and family.)
(Thinking < doing)

 

Sorry for slide 4, my camera fell out of my hands.

Works on display:
untitled
tryingtostaysane
A duck's tale
2020
mixed media on canvas, digital collage
130 x 185 cm

Bonus footage (behind the scenes)
various works
2020
Mixed media, monotype
21 x 29.7 cm

16.12.20 — 5.2.21

Yannick Val Gesto

'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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