EMILY POPE
OUT OF STEP WITH THE SEASON
DEC 17, 2024-
DEC 29, 2024
DEC 29, 2024
64 FULTON STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10038
NEW YORK, NY 10038
SARA'S is thrilled to announce a solo presentation by London-based artist Emily Pope, Out of Step with the Season, opening Tuesday, December 17, from 5-7pm.
Pope, who works in film, sound, printmaking and writing, is predominately interested in series-making. She has been iteratively creating The Sitcom Show, a failed sitcom recording life under austerity measures in the UK, since 2016. Her research explores a history of experimental broadcast media with a focus on humour and satire, queer intersectional feminism, political rhetoric and class politics, and she is excited by challenging dominant power structures. Out of Step with the Season combines the most recent episodic limb sprung from her ongoing video series with a collection of enigmatic and irreverent movie posters.
There's a rumour going round says you're gonna split
They say you're going away, it's a midnight blitz,
But there's only good in leaving with a suitcase full of load,
'cause where's all the good times and the pocket full of I.O.U.s!
Take the cash, don't let them pay you in kind,
Take the cash before they change their minds,
And let's see the colour of the money - take the cash!
Pope, who works in film, sound, printmaking and writing, is predominately interested in series-making. She has been iteratively creating The Sitcom Show, a failed sitcom recording life under austerity measures in the UK, since 2016. Her research explores a history of experimental broadcast media with a focus on humour and satire, queer intersectional feminism, political rhetoric and class politics, and she is excited by challenging dominant power structures. Out of Step with the Season combines the most recent episodic limb sprung from her ongoing video series with a collection of enigmatic and irreverent movie posters.
There's a rumour going round says you're gonna split
They say you're going away, it's a midnight blitz,
But there's only good in leaving with a suitcase full of load,
'cause where's all the good times and the pocket full of I.O.U.s!
Take the cash, don't let them pay you in kind,
Take the cash before they change their minds,
And let's see the colour of the money - take the cash!
I’m writing this from a static, broken down van which doesn’t belong to me and hasn’t passed an MOT in forever. I’m about to move into a friend's basement room with absolutely no idea where I’m going next, the atmosphere is - untethered. I’ve been feeling really fucked up. I keep reading books about lesbians who went to live in the desert in Arizona in communes in the 90’s and wondering if I should do the same, and then wondering how the desert felt about this.
The best way I can describe my current mood is to say: I live within a permanent eyeroll. So, alongside the pain, and the price, of living (so dramatic, as usual) I’ve been trying to retain a bit of attitude; I’ve been thinking about how art can work for me, as it is usually me who works for art.
Essentially - I’ve had a long term fascination with films depicting ‘lesbian yearning’ - when there is an unrealised romantic relationship between two implied lesbians, who are unable, due to external homophobia, internalised homophobia, or simply unrequited love, to realise their desire - a bit like the lesbian version of the Remains of the Day. These films can be identified through the following additional qualities: one, an abusive man being killed or attacked at the beginning of the film, two - the script centres
The best way I can describe my current mood is to say: I live within a permanent eyeroll. So, alongside the pain, and the price, of living (so dramatic, as usual) I’ve been trying to retain a bit of attitude; I’ve been thinking about how art can work for me, as it is usually me who works for art.
Essentially - I’ve had a long term fascination with films depicting ‘lesbian yearning’ - when there is an unrealised romantic relationship between two implied lesbians, who are unable, due to external homophobia, internalised homophobia, or simply unrequited love, to realise their desire - a bit like the lesbian version of the Remains of the Day. These films can be identified through the following additional qualities: one, an abusive man being killed or attacked at the beginning of the film, two - the script centres
EMILY POPE lives and works in London, UK. Recent solo and group presentations include: Quench Gallery (CURRENT), Ginny on Frederick, Sundy London, Wysing Arts Centre, The Box Museum; Plymouth, V.O Curations, Tate Britain, Peak Gallery; London, Paradise Works; Manchester, The White Pube Residency, The Royal Standard; Liverpool, Serf; Leeds, Hester Gallery; NYC, VI VII; Oslo, HA HA Gallery; Southampton, Auto Italia; London and Turf Projects; London. Her writing has been published by Lesley Magazine, Curating the Contemporary, Laugh Magazine, Low Theory, The Freud Museum, Bookworks, Arcadia Missa, Montez Press and Autoitalia. In 2023 Pope was selected as an awardee of the second edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award.
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