ABSINTHE §2
18.05.2019–17.08.2019
Location
Spit & Sawdust, London
Co-organized by
Billy Fraser, Charlie Mills & James Capper
List of Artists
Nancy Allen, Beatrice Lettice Boyle, Luca Bosani, James Capper, Rayvenn D’Clark, Billy Fraser, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Mimi Hope, Marie Jacotey, Natalia Janula (guest curated within MARTIN and the Parasite by Georgia Stephenson), Victoria Kaldan, Rosie Kennedy, Thomas Langley, Lilian Nejatpour, India Nielsen, Elizabeth Prentis, Ben Reader, Skeuomorph, Tom Ribot, Ted Le Swer, Juan Manuel Salas Valdivia, Nadja Voorham, Mitch Vowles, Corey Whyte, Jim Woodall, Rafał Zajko.
Billy Fraser, Untitled, 2018
Billy Fraser, 2001 An Alternative Ending, 2019
Jim Woodall, Matter Is Not Dense, 2019
Ben Reader, Lágrima, 2018
Ben Reader, Untitled, 2017
Luca Bosani, Anger (sun), 2019
Luca Bosani, Flirt (moon), 2019
Marie Jacotey Sarcophagus Bed, 2018
Juan Manuel Salas Valdivia, Untitled, 2019 & Articulation #7, 2019
Rafal Zajko, Switch I, 2019
Rafal Zajko, Pole, 2019
Rosie Kennedy, Dear Marlow, 2019
Nancy Allen, Upholstered Stack, 2019
Jane Hayes Greenwood, Queens of Poisons, 2019
Rayvenn D_Clark, My Head Hurts, My Feet Stinks & I Don't Love Jesus, 2019
Ted Le Swer, another moving in with us, 2019
Ted Le Swer, Strange Stranger, 2019
Beatrice Lettice Boyle, That is real moss on my face. That is oatmeal and dirt in my hair (The Bum) I, 2019
India Nielsen, Soft, 2018
India Nielsen, The Law, 2018, Chrome Web, 2018 & Love is (The Law), 2018
India Nielsen, Hummburglar, 2019
Corey Whyte, Re-Snowman, 2019
Mitch Vowles, Cafe Picasso #2, 2019
Lilian Nejatpour, Hoist, 2019
Natalia Janula, Leftovers Are Us, 2019
Natalia Janula, My silicone hands I need to wash (Detail), 2019
Natalia Janula, My silicone hands I need to wash, 2019
Natalia Janula, Leftovers Are Us (Detail), 2019
Thomas Langley, Ted Le Swer, Beatrice Lettice Boyle & Lilian Nejatpour
Thomas Langley, Mummy's Boy X Grand Designs, 2019
Thomas Langley, Something Proper, 2018
James Capper, ATLAS MILLS, 2016
Skeuomorph, Pink Drift, 2019
Jim Woodall, Matter Is Not Dense, 2019
Elizabeth Prentis, JELLY FLIP I, 2019
ABSINTHE §2
Absinthe. Curious love of the sordid and the extravagant. Muse of the weird, twisted and eerie. Throughout its short history, absinthe has passed from antiseptic to vermicide, honorary salute to morphological being. It is ghostly and mutinous. It is no surprise that absinthe has long persisted in the underground, from Joyce to Baudelaire, Rimbaud to van Gogh. It was prolific amongst artists and writers of the boulevards of modern Paris: mystic visions of the Moulin Rouge, images that bled from their canvas with an emerald sorcery: hypnotic, aberrant and erotic.
Comprising 3 major exhibitions of emerging artists over the course of 9 months, ABSINTHE is a hybrid, eclectic, and at points inexplicable presentation of the weirder side of London’s emerging art scene. Located at the Spit & Sawdust pub, Bermondsey, each exhibition will present a mandala of artists that cut and splice between mediums and styles; a kaleidoscopic trip into the city’s current alternative art practices.
Events
ABSINTHE Art Pub Quiz, hosted by Hector Campbell & Byzantia Harlow (13.08.2019)
ABSINTHE §2: Live, curated by George Rouy & Jesse Pollock (13.07.2019)
Publication
ABSINTHE §2 (download)
Published by Kronos Publishing
Edition of 100
Edited by Charlie Mills
Graphic design by Stephen Dalley
Interviews & Essay by Hector Campbell
Poetry by Ben Reader
Photography by Billy Fraser
Copyright ABSINTHE and Kronos x Elam Publishing 2019
Text copyright the authors 2019
Images courtesy of ABSINTHE