27 JAN - 7 APR 2024
**You want it to be art and I want it to be magazine**
A conversation between HILARY LLOYD and MANY OF THEM.
Many of Them
Publishing project
MANY OF THEM is an editorial project founded in San Sebastián by ANTONIO MACARRO and PEDRO CANICOBA in 2008 to stage encounters between artists and thinkers working across mediums, languages, locations, and disciplines. Now publishing its tenth issue, MACARRO and CANICOBA offer the magazine as a site for possibility and freedom. The publication combines research, conversations, and images that cross thresholds and create new, unexpected intersections and connections.
MANY OF THEM: So…
HILARY LLOYD: Well, how could I translate the creative process that comes through dancing, nightclubbing, being at a party—all that—into the process of making art? It was September 2022, you were going to make an exhibition about the ten years of MANY OF THEM and invited me to collaborate. We knew that we wanted it to come directly as a result of hanging out and having conversations together, talking about life, love, politics, culture, art, film, books, magazines, music, animals, partying, porn, lots of stuff. Straight on, during one of these conversations, we recognized for the first time that you wanted to make an exhibition that relates to ideas around art and that I wanted to make an exhibition that is all magazine, a magazine, the magazine, magazines. And then? How do I get what I make into a show like this? What do we do with a bunch of objects from others,—a bag, a keychain, an image, a piece of clothing, a painting, a wig—and put it in there? How can it be art and a magazine? Next, during a meeting in the flesh, in San Sebastián, with all the sun and the long, deep views of the pastel-coloured sea, together with you and your cat COQUE, our conversations spiraled out and we decided to inhabit the gap between the experience of looking at a magazine and being inside an exhibition. Somewhere here is You want it to be art and I want it to be magazine.
*A conversation between HILARY LLOYD and MANY OF THEM.
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Hilary Lloyd
Artist
Hilary Lloyd’s work centres on film and video whilst also using sculpture, painting and installation. Engaging directly with their sites of production or of exhibition making, the films resist conventional notions of ‘duration’, instead representing filmic tableaux’s to be encountered. Some are almost devoid of movement or incident, while others employ a rapidly panning or shifting point of view. The work involves a tension between an ambiguous, seemingly casual subject matter and a precise arrangement of images and installation equipment.
Hilary Lloyd (b. 1964) has exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions including: Dog bEar Scarf, Josey, Norwich (2022); Car Park, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Chance Encounters V, Loewe Foundation, Miami (2019); Bar, BAR, Turin (2019); Theatre, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2017); Awful Girls, Dorich House Museum, Dorich House Fellowship & Dora Volume 1, Kingston (2017); Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2016); Robot and Balfour, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2015); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2012, accompanied by an extensive catalogue); Artists Space, New York (2011); Raven Row, London (2010); Tramway, Glasgow (2009); Le Consortium, Dijon (2009); Kunstverein München (2006); Waiters, Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects, Venice Biennale (2003); Kino der Dekonstruktion, Frankfurter Kunstverein (2000); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (1999). She was nominated for the 2011 Turner Prize for her exhibition of 2010 at Raven Row, London. Current and recent group shows include: Gonna get you Gonna get you, BAR, Turin (2023): Superficial Authenticity: Politics at the Surface, Filet, London (2022); REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022); Unhappiness is Treason I, Show me Yours (The Politics of Aesthetics), Filet, London (2021); Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Centre, London (2020, travelling to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin in 2020); On masculinity, Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2019); Palimpsest, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford (2019); The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Bonner Kunstverein (2017); Dora, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University (where she was appointed the first Dorich House Fellow in 2015); Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (2015); A Singular Form, Secession, Vienna (2014); Remote Control, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2012); and Turner Prize, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Lloyd lives and works in London.