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In Graham Wiebe and Boz Deseo Garden’s The Sphinx, a large plywood box approximates the dimensions of a (non-existent) antechamber beneath the right paw of the Great Sphinx. The box in the exhibition houses their collaborative film, also entitled The Sphinx (2025), and on its exterior wall floats Wiebe’s cut-up novel HOW TO WIN WHEN YOU DON’T CONTROL YOUR ONLY LIFE AND IT’S STARTING TO BE ALL YOU AUTOMATICALLY! THINK ABOUT & GROW IN SEARCH OF The secret Lessons in POWER THAT TRAP PEOPLE OVER TIME (2025) whose spliced self-help texts become the transcript of the film. This marks the first engagement of the interior of Wiebe’s book works.
The interior of the Sphinx’s antechamber was seen in a vision by “The Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce, a white American clairvoyant. In Cayce’s vision, the antechamber houses the “Hall of Records”, precursor to the New Age movement’s Akashic Records (a mythological repository of every thought of every being). Prior...More
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In Graham Wiebe and Boz Deseo Garden’s The Sphinx, a large plywood box approximates the dimensions of a (non-existent) antechamber beneath the right paw of the Great Sphinx. The box in the exhibition houses their collaborative film, also entitled The Sphinx (2025), and on its exterior wall floats Wiebe’s cut-up novel HOW TO WIN WHEN YOU DON’T CONTROL YOUR ONLY LIFE AND IT’S STARTING TO BE ALL YOU AUTOMATICALLY! THINK ABOUT & GROW IN SEARCH OF The secret Lessons in POWER THAT TRAP PEOPLE OVER TIME (2025) whose spliced self-help texts become the transcript of the film. This marks the first engagement of the interior of Wiebe’s book works.
The interior of the Sphinx’s antechamber was seen in a vision by “The Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce, a white American clairvoyant. In Cayce’s vision, the antechamber houses the “Hall of Records”, precursor to the New Age movement’s Akashic Records (a mythological repository of every thought of every being). Prior...More
