Where: Hannah Hoffman (2504 West 7th Street, 2nd Floor, Westlake, Los Angeles)
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Installation view of Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) at Hannah Hoffman, 2022 (photo by Paul Salveson, image courtesy the artist and Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles) Videos of Forti weeding in her garden - the camera lingering ever-so-achingly on the movement of her hands - are woven together with writings, drawings, ephemera of the artist’s early performances, and readings of the exhibition’s eponymous poem, to create a kind of choreography that reflects on the totality, and the utter profundity, of Forti’s life and work.
The inimitable, the legendary, and the iconic Simone Forti has no doubt been the subject of countless exhibitions, but rarely does one feel as gentle of an embrace as An Other Pretty Autumn. Where: The Box (805 Traction Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles) An Other Pretty Autumn Installation view of An Other Pretty Autumn at The Box, 2022 (photo by Fredrick Nilson Studio, courtesy The Box, Los Angeles)
