Work Work: On display at Frieze

Thomas Dozol
"No End", 2011
Fluorescent ink silk screen posters
155 x 123 cm


Si vous êtes de passage à Londres, passez par Frieze pour voir un des mes tous rècents travaux.
If you're in London, come visit the Jack Hanley booth at Frieze and see an installation of the new poster work.

Jack Hanley / Booth A9
Frieze Art Fair
Regent's Park
London, United Kingdom

Vernissage ce Dimanche!

THOMAS DOZOL I IS NOW WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY Opening: Sunday 9 October, 2011. 8PM to 11PM Special guest dj for the night: Jeremy Shaw The exhibition will remain on until end of October and can be visited daily from 18 to 24 PM White Cubicle Toilet Gallery is honoured to present an exhibition by Thomas Dozol. For I IS NOW Dozol presents a series of new photographic work which explores the relationship between the body, sign language, abstract geometry and color codes. For it, Dozol has created a whole alphabet of hand signs screen printed as black light posters. Writing with a non-letter alphabet, images become phrases which become haiku like texts, but which also refer to the silent languages of minorities and subcultures. The back light posters also remind us of propaganda and political posters of the seventies and of the aesthetics of lost utopias. For the exhibition Dozol transforms the White Cubicle into a glow in the dark installation. THOMAS DOZOL was born in Martinique and studied Economics, Social Studies and Theatre in Paris before moving to New York In 2002 where he became a photographer. His work has been featured in Interview, Vogue Paris, AnotherMan, Apartamento, Kaiserin and Kink. Dozol’s solo exhibitions include 'Entre Temps' at Envoy Gallery in New York in spring 2010 and ‘I’ll be your Mirror’ at Mais Soma in Sao Paulo in autumn of 2010. He also has a twin. You can visit his tumblr at: http://thomasdozol.tumblr.com/ You can also see some of his previous work at http://envoyenterprises.com/artists_pages/dozol.html andhttp://www.eastvillageboys.com/2010/05/31/in-the-shower-with-thomas-dozol THE WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY measures 1.40 by1.40 metres, is located within the Ladies Toilet of the George and Dragon, and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. White Cubicle presents a discerning programme of local and international manifestations as an antidote to London’s sometimes extremely commodified art scene. Past exhibitions have included the work of Deborah Castillo, Gregorio Magnani, Butt Magazine, Federico Herrero, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, Pixis Fanzine/Princess Julia and Hanah, General Idea and avaf, Basso Magazin, Carl Hopgood, Giles Round, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin), Elkin Calderon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/Hate Magazine, Husam el Odeh, Simon Popper, Fur, Dik Fagazine, Rick Castro/Abravanation, Jean Michel Wicker, Noki, Ellen Cantor,Karl Holmqvist, Julie Verhoeven, Aldo Chaparro, Esther Planas, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Luis Venegas, Twinklife, Rocky Alvarez, Benedetto Chirco, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset, Francesc Ruiz, Sico Carlier, Stefan Benchoam... website: http://www.whitecubicle.org/ Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103491142620&ref=ts

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Je ne suis d'habitude pas des plus inspire par ce genre de photos.
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Je traversais hyde park a la fin du jour, sous une bruine trop froide a mon gout. Et soudain je me suis retrouve sous cette explosion de fleurs blanches. Les premieres du printemps qui debutait enfin.

I usually feel uninspired when it comes to photographing nature.
But that was a beautiful moment.
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Et comme d'habitude, leurs magazines dechirent.
J'ai vraiment hate d'y retrouner.
Le seul probleme serait les distances.
Ce soir la, mon amie Pippa m'a emmene a Shoredicth. Depuis Fulham ou je residais, j'en ai eu pour une heure et demie de metro. Sans un bon bouquin ou un ipod video, c'est un peu rude.
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And their magazines are killing, as always.
I'm eager to be back and work there.
The only draw back would be the distances.
In this photo we're in Shoreditch. From Fulham where i was staying: an hour and a half worth of metro. It can be a little rough without a good book or an ipod video.
But I'll be more prepared next time.