antony hegarty at agnes b. galerie du jour
ANTONY HEGARTY
Galerie du Jour Agnes B.
Until 6 May
In a demonstration of his versatility, singer Antony Hegarty, of Antony and the Johnsons, extends his hand to the visual arts with this show entitled Six Eyes. His personal photographic and montage work is exhibited along side that of five other talented artists: Barbara Cummard, Peter Hujar, Alice O’Malley, Kiki Smith, and James Elaine. Hegarty’s scratchy, macabre montages and purposefully worn photographs mingle seamlessly with Hujar’s depictions of New York City’s street refuse (people, animals, things – dead and misused). The knowing women of Kiki Smith’s brut drawings nod to Alice O’Malley’s equally self-possessed photographic subjects, while domesticity and the rural are central themes of both Barbara Cummard’s photographic series and James Elaine’s film installation (set to an eerie track by William Basinski). These artists are successfully united under a thematic umbrella of the essentially and inescapably human: memory, home, and life in its unavoidably bodily casing.
Photograph by Donald Felix Cervantes.