Curator of NAKED SEDUCTION, Ricki Blakesberg amongst the photographs she selected from Elizabeth Sunflower’s archive to create this exhibition. We’ve loved our collaboration with @retrophotoarchive - come catch show this weekend before it closes.
DUPLEX will be open today, tomorrow and Sunday from 1-6pm 🌻
Works pictured:
Cemented (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires
Topless Luncheons (1970) Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires
Strip Tease (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires
This past week Anna Bloda and Akeem Duncan took over Duplex to promote Anna Bolda’s first solo presentation MOTHER-HOOD. They approached us with the project as Anna’s dream space to showcase a section of her photographs.
Bolda has a massive community she cares for and participates in - a kind, encouraging and creative person - for Bolda this moment as been long awaited 💗 @akduncan85@annabloda
I Would Cease to Be (I) & (II) both now open ~ New York City @duplex.nyc and Providence, RI @apt13gallery ~ congrats @pixieforest2000 !!
For the closing at Duplex , THIS SUNDAY, collaborators of Erika’s will share writing and music in the space. The share will begin 4pm 🪄 all are welcome
A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.
Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.
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I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique
Documentation by @maxlakner
Silver Screen 👁 from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be - up @duplex.nyc through April 2nd
Silver Screen, 2023
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000
The Bride from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be (I) - open this weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📌
The Bride, 2023
ink, acrylic medium, glitter, plaster, silver leafing, black nail polish, bee’s wax, rock, thread, safety pins, pins, clips, burlap, silk, canvas
82” x 54” (dims variable)
Unique
I WOULD CEASE TO BE
God
dissolved
my mind – my separation.
I cannot describe my intimacy with Him.
How dependent is your body’s life on water and food and air? I said to God, ‘ I will always be unless you cease to Be,’ And my Beloved replied, ‘And I
would cease to Be
if you
died.’
- St. Teresa Avila
Erika Rios Hickle: I Would Cease to Be (I) is now open Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 1-6pm ~ come explore 📍
Silver Screen, 2023 (detail)
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000
Duplex is pleased to present our next exhibition Erika Rios Hickle’s I Will Cease to Be (I) opening THIS Sunday, March 5th from 6-8pm 👁📍
In a new series of mixed media wall works and sculptures inspired by St. Teresa de Avila’s influential text The Interior Castle, Rios Hickle explores her own visual interpretation of the religious figure, most famously eroticized in Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Baroque altarpiece “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.”
Referencing domestic interiors and architectural motifs of Mexican Catholic Churches, Rios Hickle combines remnants of old, sun-bleached, moth eaten, and torn fabric, with photography, drawing, and collage to form her own makeshift alters reflecting an archive of collective maternal history. Simultaneously becoming and disappearing, the altars bring viewers into contact with St. Teresa’s miraculous experience which took place at a moment when her body and mind was at the brink of death.
Spanning two physical locations in New York City at Duplex and in Providence, RI at Apartment 13, Rios Hickle mimics sites of religious pilgrimage in which images of the artist’s and Saint’s disjointed body parts transform into holy relics.
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I Would Cease to Be (II) opens at Apartment 13 on March 30th, 2023 @apt13gallery coinciding with the closing weekend of I Would Cease to Be (I) @duplex.nyc
Upon entering the exhibition the viewer is met with an installation that echoes both a community gathering space and an artist studio - embellished photographic prints of vendetta hang amongst video artworks displayed on varying monitors, and a display of collected paraphernalia leads to a corkboard of text sourced from social media comments, unpaid job ads, and negative art reviews exemplative of the ever-shifting social contracts and uneven power dynamics within the structure of our systems. Signage indicates an inventive use of the "back room", inviting the public to sort through photographs of recent performance work and films transferred to VHS, which can be played upon selection. In Body of/and Work the public is an active participant in the discovery and gathering of information, simulating the experience of finding pathways within archival work and societal discord.
#aprilvendetta
#humantrashdump
