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ALBEIT THO BLACKARTPROJECTS & HAMISHI FARAH PRESENT

B L A C K


ALBEIT THO 524 Flinders 524 Flinders Street Melbourne, Australia 22 March - 6 April, 2014



holographic diary only sparkles in the sun but this is melbourne important notice: signatures will soon be phased out hey little girl, why you got a website? you’re just a little girl! you can’t have anything to say when will my eight-year-old niece get tumblr or maybe she’ll think it’s too retro and skip it tricked out window cleaners’ shuttles on some buildings, this one’s purple magenta, a good tone we don’t know how to process our notes a movie in which every character has green eyes unstable let me repeat: I need an app called back on track to look at hourly instead of facebook do u think about facebook more or less often than u think about sex? do laundry woah I just imagined I got a chick pregnant I am growing scatological I dream of supreme hats for sale crazy good teams of teens in resolved halloween looks tiny thin bic pens stolen afterhours visions are worth fighting for using rocks from the desert floor to stay in shape a life spent at one’s desk is a life spent alone and it is more intense because


conversational English conversational sex toys sexuality, that is, the multimillion dollar underground trade in #melbournebikeshare helmets a character called Barley, which of course means safe no one cares what I’m up to when I’m happy and working hard, damn melodrama queens *sigh* sometimes sun hits an inanimate object and I think it’s my phone with a push note when u have long princess hair it’s difficult to cut it and start over I have opened all apps five times or more there’s more to life than this but what? open notes, write some words forever for me alone, to last I was trying to sleep but I could feel something in my hand like keeping me awake, I threw it against the wall and it was my phone but I’ve still never smashed the screen future memories I can’t quite recall am I being too specific? that the gallery has a time limit is… what do you do when the internet hurts your whole entire body? animal activist girls with beads in their hair

Holly Childs, 2014


The view (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


I am the most regular guy (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


Two similar colours (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


Funereal (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


Single Mum (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


Man slowly revealing himself (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


I want to be so physically large it would be impossible for me not to be Prime Minister (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


Trying to connect (2014) acrylic on board 124 x 84 cm


you & i we will see each other again & again & again until we have been each other over & over & it is very exciting to die this way with you all of the time yes, i am certain you have lived my own life at least 400 thousand times yes, it sounds very boring but i’m glad it’s always different when i am in love the moon is the same as it ever was but not to me i’m glad it’s always different

Heiko Julien Excerpt from “Again & Again”, I Am Ready To Die A Violent Death


Soft glow (2014) 500 socks dimensions variable


Self Titled (still) (2014) video album, edition of 3 duration 8m47s


Self Titled (still) (2014) video album, edition of 3 duration 8m47s


Apologies (detail) (2014) digital print on tailored t-shirt, edition of 5 400cm length



The artist wishes to thank Ry David Bradley, Holly Childs, Michele Davies, George Egerton-Warburton, Warren Harrison, Heiko Julien, Aiden Morse and Jack Robinson for their assistance in the execution of this project.


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