Event overview
Goldsmiths CCA presents the first institutional exhibition by artist duo Louis Blue Newby and Laila Majid.
Inner Heat places a series of new drawings into conversation with sculptural elements of public infrastructure, examining the dynamic between private image consumption and the public realm.
Both solo practising artists, Newby and Majid’s shared practice has evolved, from a constant exchange of found imagery, gathered to create an archive of printed and digital material in what has become an instinctive shared language. Fluidly moving between mediums, their work has reconfigured visuals scraped from sources such as online forums, social feeds, subreddits and Pornhub. Developed via mediation and presented through a distorting lens – at times overlaying constellations of images with translucent resin, cast from leather to look like skin (Spread, 2022-ongoing); at others, using 16mm film to capture a screen showing a sequence of amorphous AI generated samples (south florida sky, 2022) – their work coaxes distance between audience and image, and in doing so gestures to an alternate style of image consumption: one in which the passive is made intimate and active.
At the centre of Inner Heat is the Contact series. A departure from Newby and Majid’s previous manipulation of images found largely in printed source materials like magazines, manuals, comics and books, Contact is derived entirely from found digital images, painstakingly translated into drawings. Archetypes of a collectively understood memetic internet culture, there is an immediacy to the source images. Contact (Forum) is a work composed of 6 drawings, their respective images taken from indeterminate sources. Decontextualized from the social media feeds where they were found, the figures in this work become resonant for the transformative and subversive quality of their content, and the severe austerity of the work’s formal format. Each image can be read as deviant, tracing gender fluidity, non-normative sexual practices, or anthropomorphic transformation. Another set of images shows figures stuck in mud, a literal metaphor for the stickiness and muddiness of the images that hold Majid and Newby’s attention.
Dates & times
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| 7 Nov 2024 |
6:00pm - 9:00pm Exhibition opening, all welcome! |
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| 8 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 9 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 10 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 13 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 14 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 15 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 16 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 17 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 20 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 21 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 22 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 23 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 24 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 27 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 28 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 29 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 30 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 1 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 4 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 5 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 6 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 7 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 8 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 11 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 12 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 13 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 4:00pm | |
| 14 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 15 Dec 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 4 Jan 2025 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 5 Jan 2025 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm |
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