"a desert full of ‘moop'"
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This week
💦 soft-boiled eggs in a brown heap
💦 a galaxy of jetsam scattered across the muddy alkali flats
💦 tequila espresso martini inventor gives Anna Delvey a run for her money
Events
🧊 14 Sep | 6-9pm | Sonya Derviz: Closer, Sherbet Green [Cambridge Heath]
🧊 14 Sep | 7pm | Adult Entertainment, The Haggerston [Dalston Junction]
🧊 14 Sep | 6-8pm | Summer Residency Show, Good Eye Projects [Barons Court]
🧊 15 Sep | 10pm-4am | Mowalola SS24 Crash Afterparty, Colour Factory [Hackney Wick] £28, tickets here
🧊 16 Sep | 12-8pm | Rafał Zajko: Clocking Off, Queer Circle [Greenwich]
🧊 16 Sep | 2-6pm | Chains of Desire: Presentations on Martin Wong, Camden Art Centre [Finchley Road]
🧊 16 Sep | 2-8pm | Simon Moretti: Jupiter Rising, Mackintosh Lane [Homerton]
🧊 16 + 17 Sep | 11-7pm | Fantastic Toiles [Queens Road Peckham]
Exhibition of the week
Oscar Enberg: Schiller’s skull: Das Beinhaus, Brunette Coleman hosted by The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, until 23 September, information here
Oscar Enberg is a pretty rad name for an artist. Rightly or wrongly, on spittle’s first read, the name conjured some kind of evil early 20th-century pharmacist making potion-like concoctions in a harshly lit lab. First coming to prominence in the UK with a show at chicest-of-chic, opens-when-it-feels-like-it, Homerton project space Mackintosh Lane, this marks Enberg’s first venture with Brunette Coleman. Our penchant for interior design noticed that the first intervention by the artist was the installation of wall cornicing into the previously zero-decoration white cube - a nice, subtle touch, that instantly gave the room a domestic feeling. On the wall were quasi-objects sitting somewhere between design and sculpture. At some points there is a kind of frilly, Art Deco vibe while others, a sense of Rachel Harrison-esque randomness pervades. Created by the artist’s partner Nigin Beck, Lower Functions of Romantic Love is a drooping lamp resembling an unfurling onion, while Gemüse mit Eier (both 2023) combines hyperrealistic models of potatoes, cauliflower and soft-boiled eggs into a brown heap that clings like a spider onto the corner of the room. Centring the space is an elegant work held within in an undulating cast plaster rose (Continental narrative arc, 2023) that we are hoping is a clock, in which the corkscrew tocks. On the list of works, its included materials read elegantly like the list of ingredients making up a new special on the board at St John: Mammoth tusk, sewing needle, antique ivory button, cow kneecap, stainless steel corkscrew worms… Everything is so deftly produced (the artist calls the pieces ‘dishonest objects’ and the real and synthetic are truly blurred) that there is an element of heartbreak: why would someone, anyone, go to such lengths to deceive and confuse? We can’t stop thinking about it.
Hot Links
👾 “His physical show included a phygital piece” - From Loewe’s Minecraft-inspired hoodies to MSCHFs Big Red Boots, fashion has been taking a tech-inspired turn in recent months. We’re excited to see if the trend will continue over the next few fashion weeks. Until then, here’s Amy Francome’s take on NFTs, virality and how our spectacle society is dictating the future of fashion
🔑 “listening to Brian Eno and putting themselves into K holes” - Insta-comedian fave Justin Firstman discusses his role in Rotting in the Sun, his first acting role in a feature film in this article for the Face. Featuring Sex, Drugs and… actually they really only discuss sex and drugs - but if the film (which premiers on Mubi Sep 15th) is half as wild as Firstman’s fantasies, we’ll be satisfied.
🍸 “You’re not someone that’s just New York sketchy” - This bonkers Vanity Fair investigation tracks shapeshifting NYC scammer Kyle Deschanel. Deschanel - fan of the $500 brunch and self-claiming inventor of the tequila espresso martini - gives queen scammer Anna D a run for her money. Netflix, we hope you’re listening x
🏜️ “A Desert Full of ‘Moop” - we LOVED this New York Times piece on the disastrous environmental aftermath of Burning Man and how ‘volunteer crews spend three weeks after the festival collecting trash and raking the ruts and hillocks out of the dirt to smooth and restore the alkali playa.’ The comments are unmissable x
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The print of Lana Del Rey reading The Paris Review by Sam Mckiniss slays pretty hard. Available for $3,500.00, here
Parting Shot
Bella Hadid smooches renderings by Japanese sculptor Hajime Sorayama for the new Heaven by Marc Jacobs campaign… steamy X
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