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Carrying morning on their tongues is an exhibition by JJJJJerome Ellis that presents four bodies of work. These works enact and channel the embodied experience of time on various scales; here, time is a river, an exposure, a musical note, or a breath.
A music album and artist’s book, The Clearing (2021), together with Aster of Ceremonies (2023), a book of hymns presented here alongside the audiobook, attune with great sensitivity to the relationship between the time of reading and the time of listening. Through JJJJJerome’s experiments with notation, transcription, and audio description, multiple visual and auditory layers converge and diverge. Alongside these works, a selection of photographs from the series Exposure (2024-) and the video 251218 (2024) introduce two distinct timelines, unfolding in an uneven rhythm around the asymmetrical architecture of Manifold Books.
What is a clock? Is it an instrument? A body with hands and a face? A capitalist rosary?’ asks JJJJJerome in The…
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Press Release
Carrying morning on their tongues is an exhibition by JJJJJerome Ellis that presents four bodies of work. These works enact and channel the embodied experience of time on various scales; here, time is a river, an exposure, a musical note, or a breath.
A music album and artist’s book, The Clearing (2021), together with Aster of Ceremonies (2023), a book of hymns presented here alongside the audiobook, attune with great sensitivity to the relationship between the time of reading and the time of listening. Through JJJJJerome’s experiments with notation, transcription, and audio description, multiple visual and auditory layers converge and diverge. Alongside these works, a selection of photographs from the series Exposure (2024-) and the video 251218 (2024) introduce two distinct timelines, unfolding in an uneven rhythm around the asymmetrical architecture of Manifold Books.
What is a clock? Is it an instrument? A body with hands and a face? A capitalist rosary?’ asks JJJJJerome in The…






















































