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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 18, 7-10PM
LAST Projects
206 S. Ave. 20, Los Angeles, CA 90031
‘Terrible Time’ – And Hope: is a solo exhibition by Markus Denil. This exhibition features a new body of work including sculpture and photography created during the fall LA Turner artist residency. This is Denil’s first exhibition at LAST Projects, and his first solo show in Los Angeles.
In ‘Terrible Time’ – And Hope: Denil experiments with change.
I can feel the alterity that defines me. As I move through this world I am constantly and consistently required to adapt to spaces that were not designed for me or people like me. It can’t stay like this. It’s not working. I don’t know what exactly needs to change – but something does. It seems impossible to imagine how we might go about building these new and necessary spaces. What would they look like? What form will they take? I hope to begin to figure that out through altering, modifying, and distorting the symbols and forms around me.
I have no answer to offer you, no plan or design, but simply the potential for something different – the space to begin to imagine something new.
A stolen Mary statue stands liberated. A temporary, unfinished structure sits in the center of the gallery. The two six-foot tall frames are built from paper, stuffed with life’s receipts and daily recyclable material, wrapped in text abstracted from online news articles and photocopies of social security cards and other forms of physical proof of existence.
Markus Denil is a Jewish queer trans fag from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. As the restless middle child of two Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University educated artists he had few rules or limitations as he grew up paired with a consistent support of his curiosity and artistic exploration. His childhood time was divided between dealing with invasive thoughts of existential dread, hunting for sea-glass on the rocky coast, building ziplines and obstacle courses in the backyard with his siblings, and making tons of art out of whatever materials he could get his hands on. Denil received a BFA in studio art with a minor in interdisciplinary studies in sexuality from Concordia University in Montreal, where he graduated with distinction. He is currently spending the fall semester working in Los Angeles as part of the LA Turner Residency program.
This exhibition and the LA Turner residency are made possible by the generous support of Marylyn Ginsburg-Klaus and Chuck Klaus.
Exhibition runs November 18 - December 2, 2022.
Gallery hours: noon-6PM, November 20, 25, 26, 27, December 2 + by appointment.
All inquiries email [email protected]
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 18, 7-10PM
LAST Projects
206 S. Ave. 20, Los Angeles, CA 90031
‘Terrible Time’ – And Hope: is a solo exhibition by Markus Denil. This exhibition features a new body of work including sculpture and photography created during the fall LA Turner artist residency. This is Denil’s first exhibition at LAST Projects, and his first solo show in Los Angeles.
In ‘Terrible Time’ – And Hope: Denil experiments with change.
I can feel the alterity that defines me. As I move through this world I am constantly and consistently required to adapt to spaces that were not designed for me or people like me. It can’t stay like this. It’s not working. I don’t know what exactly needs to change – but something does. It seems impossible to imagine how we might go about building these new and necessary spaces. What would they look like? What form will they take? I hope to begin to figure that out through altering, modifying, and distorting the symbols and forms around me.
I have no answer to offer you, no plan or design, but simply the potential for something different – the space to begin to imagine something new.
A stolen Mary statue stands liberated. A temporary, unfinished structure sits in the center of the gallery. The two six-foot tall frames are built from paper, stuffed with life’s receipts and daily recyclable material, wrapped in text abstracted from online news articles and photocopies of social security cards and other forms of physical proof of existence.
Markus Denil is a Jewish queer trans fag from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. As the restless middle child of two Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University educated artists he had few rules or limitations as he grew up paired with a consistent support of his curiosity and artistic exploration. His childhood time was divided between dealing with invasive thoughts of existential dread, hunting for sea-glass on the rocky coast, building ziplines and obstacle courses in the backyard with his siblings, and making tons of art out of whatever materials he could get his hands on. Denil received a BFA in studio art with a minor in interdisciplinary studies in sexuality from Concordia University in Montreal, where he graduated with distinction. He is currently spending the fall semester working in Los Angeles as part of the LA Turner Residency program.
This exhibition and the LA Turner residency are made possible by the generous support of Marylyn Ginsburg-Klaus and Chuck Klaus.
Exhibition runs November 18 - December 2, 2022.
Gallery hours: noon-6PM, November 20, 25, 26, 27, December 2 + by appointment.
All inquiries email [email protected]