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Maureen Paley is pleased to present Leisure, the first exhibition by Jack O’Brien at the gallery in Morena di Luna, Hove.
In this new exhibition, Jack O’Brien reconfigures everyday objects through processes of twisting, binding, stretching, and puncturing, using these material interventions to probe how desire is constructed, how economies of consumption are sedimented, and how queer aesthetics operate under conditions of instability and continual transformation.
In Leisure, resin filled wine bottles recur as a motif, functioning less as a symbolic object than as a small architectural scaffold; provisional columns around which other materials lean, suspend, or gather. The title Leisure is not meant to describe ease, but more a condition that the sculptures temporarily inhabit: a framework in which disparate elements pause in relation to one another.
This logic attempts to be in dialogue with the Regency architecture of Morena di Luna. Curves and flourishes within the works echo the…
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Press Release
Maureen Paley is pleased to present Leisure, the first exhibition by Jack O’Brien at the gallery in Morena di Luna, Hove.
In this new exhibition, Jack O’Brien reconfigures everyday objects through processes of twisting, binding, stretching, and puncturing, using these material interventions to probe how desire is constructed, how economies of consumption are sedimented, and how queer aesthetics operate under conditions of instability and continual transformation.
In Leisure, resin filled wine bottles recur as a motif, functioning less as a symbolic object than as a small architectural scaffold; provisional columns around which other materials lean, suspend, or gather. The title Leisure is not meant to describe ease, but more a condition that the sculptures temporarily inhabit: a framework in which disparate elements pause in relation to one another.
This logic attempts to be in dialogue with the Regency architecture of Morena di Luna. Curves and flourishes within the works echo the…
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