Just Guzzling
Gabriel Curtin

Gallery 3
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When a three year old runs a pencil across a page and thinks ‘volcano’, it’s a tributary action. The lines produced are a volcano, even if they don’t look like it. While encountered beforehand, the volcano erupts both during and after the marks are made. There’s an encounter, an association, then another encounter and the equation repeats.

Just Guzzling is an exhibition of eight new paintings. During their production, the paintings each accumulated associations until arriving at an aesthetic conclusion. In this way, they are versions of the three year old’s process – an elaborate drawing through the aesthetic jetsam of cultural inheritance.

Aided by texts written for the show by Gabriel’s comrades (Ender BaŞkan, Declan Furber-Gillick, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Beth Sometimes and Vladimir Mayakovsky), Just Guzzling imagines how images and ideas are inherited, metabolised and manifest as logics that are difficult to outmanoeuvre, suturing and scaffolding the processes of feeling moving into thought, thought into labour, labour into relation and relation into speech, apprehension, violence, love, contradiction.

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