Jesse Wine

1 - Jesse’s fading hair

2 - Ooooooooorrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnngggggggggggeeee

3 - The Bath

4 - Desire and value

5 - Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

6 - Cut a hole in the rain for ya

7 - Study of sleeping me

I

Then the idea strikes. Why hadn’t it occurred to Jesse’s fading hair before. It occurs to Jesse’s fading hair, as it crouches there, next to Ooooooooorrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnngggggggggggeeee, that it might be possible to hoodwink them all, to pull off the trick they have been playing on people since they were young: to exchange places, leading people to believe that each was the other.

II

The Bath takes a deep breath, bracing its stiff joints to rise.

Groan-clunk-groan

The Bath is a slow mover.

A while later it has risen, beginning to articulate and move

ambling past Jesse’s fading hair and Ooooooooorrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnngggggggggggeeee

in no particular order.

Desire and value is really, really ready to leave.

Back turned with posture

so straight, so tall

that the lowest point of its flop towers above The Bath.

What a weird pair, The Bath and Desire and value,

landscape and portrait.

Decay and decay.

Arm-in-arm they approach Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.

A downpour en-route causes quite the scene, the weird pair become a streaky pair.

Interiority on display.

III

Tragedy!

Today is the 19th of November 2020, this exhibition is on display until the 9th of January 2021.

For this entire period these rooms will remain almost exactly as they are right now.

Jesse Wine was born in 1983 in Chester, England. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Solo exhibitions include: The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (forthcoming, 2021); Sculpture Center, New York (2020); and Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2020, 2017); Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2016); Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2016); and Soy Capitán, Berlin (Invited by Melissa Canbaz) (2016). Selected group exhibitions include: Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2019, 2017); Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro (2019, 2017); Galerie Sébastien Bertrand (2019); GAK, Bremen (2018); Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2018); Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (2017); Battersea Power Station and CASS Sculpture Foundation – Powerhouse Commission, London (2017); Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2017); Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles (2017); Museum of Cambridge, Cambridge (2017); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2017); Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, (2016); and Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2016).

Jesse Wine's exhibition Imperfect List is currently on view at Sculpture Center, New York through January 25, 2021.