Anna Ialeggio & Michael Thurin

Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to present Middle Ground, an exhibition of images and imaginings by Anna Ialeggio and Michael Thurin that offer maps towards corporeal possibilities. The works displayed render boundaries while making tangible the porous nature of flesh. The provisional gestures presented are attempts to approach myths of the somatic and embody an expanded space of what it means to have and be had by a body.

Anna Ialeggio lives and works in Los Angeles, and drives to Irvine. Her approach to art is pretty much LARPing: picking at the permeable membranes of daily life and looking for helpful wild new mythologies of conduct on a slippery slope. This work exists somewhere between journalism and myth, immersion and self-awareness, capital and autonomy, intactness and evolution. The biodiversity of ecosystems and ideas, filtered through a collective response and fast/cheap/at-hand materials, is an echoing constant. Anna has worked with the Mars Desert Research Station, Human Resources LA, Wave Farm, Kunstradio, The Hammer Museum, Art Farm, Van AbbeMuseum, Mass MOCA, The Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Philadelphia Mural Arts, KCHUNG Radio, The Miss Rockaway Armada, and the Philadelphia Arts Alliance. She is a 2019 MFA candidate at the University of California, Irvine.

Michael Thurin is a Southern California-based interdisciplinary artist. Through still and moving imagery, text, and live performance, Thurin's work speculates upon the specificities of bodies and their physical, material, and affective capacities. Central to their process is a commitment to body-based, non-dualistic knowledge. They believe in the radical possibilities of doing by being by feeling by unknowing by being by not doing. Engaging critically and imaginatively in discourses and praxes within critical trans politics, queer theory, disability studies, and radical pedagogy, Thurin’s work seeks to create a nonlinear timespace for the liberation of all bodies. They are an MFA in Art candidate at the University of California, Irvine.