Closure Difficulties and Performative Reality (ELEONORA AGOSTINI)
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Guest artist ELEONORA AGOSTINI joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her art practice via 'Boxes', a short story featured in 'Elephant and Other Stories' 1998 Collins Harvill. Written by Raymond Carver and originally published in The New Yorker, the story explores connections, disillusion, powerlessness, worry and loss within a mother and son relationship, as well as the distance between listening and hearing.  ELEONORA and Pelumi's discussion encompasses immortality, microcosmos, waitressing, belonging, mothers, self representation, the grid, family frictions, bitter endings, creepy observation, archival images, being deeply uncomfortable, hiding in bushes, multiple layers of meaning, the complicated teenage years, difficulty bringing closure to relationships, connections between pictures and performance, and not wanting to be the dictator of the image.   @eleonoraagostini eleonoraagostini.com Foam Talent 2024-2025 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2019 'A Study of Waitressing' 'A Blurry Aftertaste' 2018 'Laying with Strangers' 'Welcome Sir' 'How to Stand in Front of the Camera' 'How to Stand in Front of the Client' 'Notes for my Clients' 'The Steps' @pelumi.odubanjo ARTISTS Olukemi Lijadu Ragnar Kjartansson WRITERS John Cheever Raymond Carver GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONS Barbican Borough Road Gallery 'With Monochrome Eyes' 2020 Palais de Tokyo Royal College  
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