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WHAT
Sexy frog biscuit IS A LONDON PROJECT SPACE WITH A UNIQUE SCHEDULE OF PRIVATE & PUBLIC EVENTS, SHOWS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS - EXECUTED BY AN ALL SKILLED TEAM OF ORGANISERS COLLABORATING WITH ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, WRITERS, SPEAKERS & CURATORS.

WHO
Sexy frog biscuit PROGRAMME IS LED BY
VINCENT CRAPON & ALEXEI ALEXANDER IZMAYLOV.

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TETRIS + TETRIS REMOTE

From time to time Sexy frog biscuit is able to offer accommodation, studio space and support for artists to research and produce new work.

In the summer of 2020, TETRIS residency is expanding online to bridge the distance between artists and creative practitioners by introducing TETRIS REMOTE, a series of collaborative research projects between the United Kingdom and Europe.

At the moment the residency is offered by invitation only.

BETA SLUMPING
Arieh Frosh

Preview 20 September, 18:00 - 20:00
On view by appointment 21/09/2023 - 24/09/2023

After a fleeting hiatus Sexy frog biscuit returns with Beta slumping, an experimental presentation by Arieh Frosh.

The exhibition brings together two incidents of slumping, of failing to stay upright.

The first: based on a scene of dying Echium Pininana, and hinting at movements in plants, from phototropism, circumnutation, to localised networked communication. A series of motorised plant-like floor sculptures that twitch, and at times, shuffle. Their downward arcs have opened up another way of being, one that is connected and communicative. A de-verticalised autonomous shrubbery.

The second: custom branded cheese toasties recall a seizure-induced episode in an outdoor cafe. A bending backwards that counters the scene, and finds a way out of there.

- Installation view

Arieh Frosh is an artist based in London. He works via a cross-disciplinary approach, using writing, 3D computer animation, motorised sculptures, and film to form narrative-based projects.

Selected exhibitions and projects include: Internal Combustion, screening at Sara's, New York, 08/23; Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy the Apocalypse, Group Exhibition, LaVallée, Brussels, Belgium, 09/2022; Día Cero, Group Exhibition, The Palace of the Running Waters, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 03/21 to 06/2021, and a two person exhibition On water, sculled, quiet at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, 2017.

In 2022, Arieh was commissioned with artist Ed Compson for In Theatre, a Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences funded research project looks at advancements in medical imaging and our relationship to the imaged body in MRI. In 2020 Arieh was a selected core member of a year-long online residency SPUR, leading to the online exhibition spur.world with organisations Chaos Magic, Nottingham; Palfrey, London; D-Unit, Bristol.

He is also a Producer of the Digital Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery, which focuses on social, ecological, aesthetic and political issues arising from the photographic image in network culture.

He is a graduate of the RCA, London and the University of Oxford.

- Feet Plant 4, 2023, digital render

PENG TING
Sae Yeoun Hwang

Preview Weekend 13 - 14 February, 16:00 - 20:00
On view by appointment 14/02/2021 - 14/03/2021

"Peng ting is a British slang referring to an attractive person, often an attractive woman. Inspired by this word, I started to introduce myself as a peng ting from painting course at parties and pubs. The joke wears another layer with the word sounding vaguely Asian. The red banner, usually associated with a political stance, paradoxically juxtaposes the lightness of the word."

- Peng Ting Painting, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 208 x 37 cm

For Valentines day 2021 Sexy frog biscuit presents PENG TING, a solo exhibition by Royal College of Art 2020 graduate Sae Yeoun Hwang.

The exhibition combines a series of paintings and drawings presented in a non-linear manner and seen as a collection of memories, experiences and imagination gathered together to establish a visual history. Sae Yeoun is "particularly interested in humour and how it functions" and in her own words "'getting the joke' reveals the viewer’s socio-economic, cultural and political understanding while raising questions about the root and the origin of the joke itself." In this exhibition, using humour as a 'defence mechanism', Sae Yeoun lifts the weight off the subject matter and charms the audience into consideration.

Sae Yeoun will present her graduation pieces and new works collectively defined by multiple themes that offer a close inspection of micro and macro interest in self and life itself.

(LEFT) The Kick, 2019
Oil on canvas, 193 x 177 cm

(RIGHT) Running Woman, 2019
Charcoal on panel, 35.6 x 25.4 cm

The Cut, 2019
Oil and graphite on paper, 29.7 x 43 cm

SUMMER NIGHTS
Films

16/08/2020-19/08/2010, 17:00 till late
Film nights, by invitation.

Image credit: still from Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow-Up, 1966.

A HANG TO LAP IT OFF
Oisín O'Brien

Preview 19/09/2019 18:00 - 20.30
On view by appointment 20/09/2019 - 06/10/2019

This September Sexy frog biscuit presents A HANG TO LAP IT OFF, a new site specific installation by Oisín O'Brien conceived during his residency at the London project space.

O'Brien's work combines handcrafted, manipulated and procured elements as barely, but wholly justifiable mixed media assemblages. Previously this has manifested as sculptural installation, painting, text, video, the dissemination of data and curatorial projects amongst others. His works are a way to extend the absurdity of our participation to being in, and of the world, both socially and culturally. This occurs through a quest for sensemaking that is paralleled by a compulsion to be emancipated from it.


Text "A HANG TO LAP IT OFF" by Oisín O'Brien

Installation view: Oisín O'Brien, A Hang to Lap It Off, 2019.
Nylon ripstop, air dancer blower, swing chair stand, ratchet straps, randomised timer, text.

FINGERS CROSSED
Demelza Watts

Preview 27/10/2018 18:00 - 21.00
On view by appointment 28/10/2018 - 10/11/2018

Sexy frog biscuit presents: Demelza Watts, FINGERS CROSSED. An exhibition combining previously unseen and new work, including a site specific installation 'BARRICADE' which was realised over the course of Watts residency at the London project space.

The everyday and the familiar are essential in Watts’ practice. Watts’ concern is how ownership affects creative thought. What is the impact of the perceived need to own on our communities, compassion and political agency. What is the relationship between ownership and introversion? Can extroversion be weaponised as a political tool? Watts’ focus lays in the common ground for the artist and the spectator, how collage can adjust the boundary between documentation and activity, editing to bring together images that blur reality and fiction, physical and virtual, possible and impossible.

Demelza Watts (born 1990, Wiltshire) lives and works in London. Current and upcoming projects include; Artist in Residence at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania (2018) and Artist in Residence at MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada (2019). Watts is co-founder of the public art research project pea proposals (2015-present) and project coordinator of PACTO, a global art collective (2017-present). Watts’ work has been shown at; Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore (2018); Tate Modern, London (2018); Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas (2017); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2017); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2016); DOC, Paris (2016); Spark Central, Washington (2016); Stroboskop, Warsaw (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Camden Arts Centre, London (2015); Royal Academy, London (2015).

Image credit: Demelza Watts, "I Wish", 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view: Demelza Watts, Barricade, contents of Alexei's living room, 2018.

LOVE SONGS, THE GREATEST HITS OF CELINE DION AND MARK ROTHKO
Guillaume Vandame

Preview 09/03/2018 18:00 - 21.00
Show dates 10/03/2018 - 20/03/2018
Artist reading & film screening 20/03/2018 19:00

"I stayed outside his flat for a couple hours in a nearby park and just waited and waited. I decided at some point to finally leave. I was not in a sane state of mind. I was in total lust. And I felt totally empty. I could either go home and cry my eyes out or go to the Tate Modern. I began the filming at the Rothko Room that same day. And within the next week or so I had assembled the first film paired with the song, “All By Myself”. I chose this song because the painting itself had a totemic quality, one solid outline of a rectangle hovering, and how it related to how I felt in that very moment: isolated and alone, physically and psychologically."
- excerpt from “love songs, the greatest hits of celine dion and mark rothko” by Guillaume Vandame.

As the show title LOVE SONGS, THE GREATEST HITS OF CELINE DION AND MARK ROTHKO unequivocally suggests Vandame sets out to construct and interrogate a narrative between the works of Dion and Rothko. Drawing on personal experience and intuitively using sincerity, pain and humour the artist toys with our emotions, and ultimately directs out attention towards art history, constructing unfastened parallels to pop culture and its impact on social politics.

Image credit: Guillaume Vandame, Untitled (Joe), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

SUMMER NIGHTS
Documentaries

17/08/2017-20/08/2017, 18.15 till late
A series of film screenings, by invitation.

Image credit: still from Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto, 2015.

MEN IN PINK
Sylvie Blocher + Alexei Izmaylov
Curated by Vincent Crapon

Preview 28/10/2015 18:30 - 21.30
Show dates 29/10/2015 - 25/11/2015

Image credit: Alexei Izmaylov, Untitled (Osteria II), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view: Sylvie Blocher, Men in Pink, 2001, collection Mudam Luxembourg, donation Amis des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire Luxembourg, 2003.

Larry Sultan, Practicing Golf Swing, 1986
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, images from the Evidence series, 1975 - 1977.
Igor Utkin, Victory Dance (Moscow), 1983
Dream Bed by Archizoom, 1967.
Studio Envy. Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama waiting for a fax send by Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys as part of the 1985 Global-Art-Fusion project initiated by conceptual artist Ueli Fuchser. The project, in which a fax was sent with drawings of all three artists within 32 minutes around the world - from Düsseldorf via New York to Tokyo was meant as a statement for peace during the Cold War.
Mies Van Der Rohe’s unrealized Mansion House Square project, London.
Screenshot from Tonie Marshall’s 1999 film Venus Beauty Institute. With Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou and Mathilde Seigner.
Sensorama, virtual reality headset by Morton Heilig. "The Revolutionary Motion Picture System that takes you into another world with 3-D, wide vision, motion, color, stereo-sound, aromas, wind, vibrations"
boldmaglux, instagram post, 2017
Soviet Foto, Magazine Issues 1960-1986
Laura Owens, Untitled, 2004
r/funnyfrog, https://www.reddit.com/r/funnyfrog/comments/acwwlt/sexy_frog_from_httpswwwgooglecom/ (access: 30/05/2019)
Alexei Alexander Izmaylov, Untitled (Osteria II), 2016
Still from Sylvie Blocher's film Men in Pink, 2001
Still from Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto, 2015
Guillaume Vandame, Untitled (Joe), 2017
Demelza Watts, "I Wish", 2018
Cezary Bodzianowski, Tęcza, Łazienka, Łódź (Rainbow, Bathroom, Łódź), 1995
Mail readers proudly show off their supersized echiums,
Alisha Rouse, Daily Mail Online, 2017
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