Justin Swinburne

Romeo Jihad

Love Jihad is on the loose

and getting VIP treatment.

The Flirty Fishing of the Family International

afflicts the world's recently deceased with a Terminal Erection; Angel Lust.

In a ninth century Hadith,

Ibn Majah

tells us that

"The penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal."

Under a Mulberry Tree, some years earlier an erection of sorts

called passion an excuse for its own faults and

bringing death to young love in the name of opacity locked the stable door after the horse had been stolen.

Dodi and Didi

Tunnel of Love

gone abroad for news of home

found themselves one Royal Family from timely death.

But conspiracy, like idleness, becomes industrious towards evening and

Advertising is the mother of Commerce

so

When the Reptilian Elite discuss fluoride and water

near ripe fruit stacked tall and true sings a travellers song that goes: Bush did 91​1.

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-Sean Fabi, 2016

Justin Swinburne (b. 1985) lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. Selected recent exhibitions include D​istant Shadow,​Jimei X Arles, Three Shadows Art Center, China, curated by Thora Dolven Balke; K​APTAL.FM,​Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK, curated by Ilja Karilampi; From the Balcony,​247365, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Jaeger; and A​bsence of Evil is the Evil of Absence​, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Mikkel Carl and Pedro Wirz. Justin Swinburne is also one­half of duo 18+ w/ Samia Mirza, selected recent exhibitions and performances as 18+ include F​rieze Projects: Frieze Music, The Brewer Street Car Park,​London, UK; B​een Caught Stealing​, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT, curated by Hannes Ribarits and Li Tasser; 4​0 Years Artists Space Program Fund,​Artists Space, New York, NY; 8​9plus Americas Marathon: Autoconstruccon,​Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, MX; L​aughter is Usually the End of the Conversation​, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT; and O​o,​Lithuanian and Cypriot Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT.