Please Do Not Enter announces its first artist in residency project, featuring experimental French artist Frédérick Gautier, Eat The River. The exhibit is a two-month long site-specific intervention into the LA River's history and landscape.
Beginning July 20, Gautier will spend two months in Los Angeles interacting with the site and creating works in a temporary studio space in Frogtown where he will produce a series of 100 three-dimensional ceramic objects derived from the traces, cracks, holes, and imprints cast and drawn from the remnants of the site's physical history.
Gautier is fascinated by Los Angeles as a city of blurred boundaries where industrial zones bleed into natural habitats and freeways isolate neighborhoods. The LA River epitomizes this divisive reality and Gautier intends to excavate it as a symbolic site of industrial intervention. In 1920, the cement LA River bed was built to control perennial flooding, and the surrounding areas were redefined as a result as urban wastelands full of warehouses and dumps. It soon became an iconic setting for action movies and murky underworld auteur films. The landscape is changing, however, and Los Angeles has begun the reclamation and rediscovery of its 48-mile stretch of river: an axis that delineates the entirety of the city from north to south.
This new body of work will be presented for the first time on September 21, 2016, 6-9pm at Please Do Not Enter in Downtown Los Angeles.
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