Sebastian Jefford & Orion Martin: Soft Laminate
The gallery is proud to present Soft Laminate, a two-person exhibition of new works by Sebastian Jefford and Orion Martin. Comprising the exhibition are the artists’ recent paintings, video, and installation elements.
“What we sloppily think of as the idea of an emotion, or the emotion as an idea, is in fact the anticipatory repetition of an affective event, precipitated by the encounter between the body’s irritability and a sign.” - Brian Massumi
Neither comes before the other, surface and form predicate each other
Klein Bottle into Mobius Strip into Donut
pets that look like their masters, masters that look like their pets
people as furniture, Rolf Benz is a couch – forniphilia
Wayne Newton’s Shenandoah
The Overlook Hotel
athletes are smokers to metaphysicians
animal camouflage - e.g. The Peppered Moth, Cristobal Baleciaga (RIP)
infinite and indistinguishable layers of laminate - Corian
linens of threads innumerable
at the softest degree of resolution
a counterfeit detector
- Mavis O’Donoghue, Berlin 2011