You are invited to the launch of Significant Others by frank r jagoe, winner of the 2024 Prototype Prize.
with
Remi Graves
Erin Holly
frank r jagoe
Allie Oliver
EK Myerson
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Daniella Valz Gen
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO BAR BUT YOU ARE WELCOME TO BYOB.
‘Significant Others is a fully grown and highly original manuscript. It is a remarkable and beautiful piece of writing which forges a new language of material aesthetics to think and write beyond the human. There is a fluency and elasticity of invention here, resonating with the processes of artistic creation and encounter. Exciting, passionate and surprising.’
– Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price, judges of the 2024 Prototype Prize
Where Misery is Manufactured (2020) part of the series titled Stomacherrr (2020) Cotton embroidery on cotton canvas.
Twenty Distempers (2020) part of the series titled Stomacherrr (2020) Cotton embroidery and lacquered senna pods on watered silk.
This pair of embroidered panels, fashioned after the 18th century garment called a stomacher, are an examination of the use of plant-based laxatives within Western medicine and culture. In particular, they chart the rise of (unregulated) medicinal advertising from the 16th to the early twentieth century. Often these laxative advertisements made outlandish and wide-reaching claims, or used body horror, shaming, and false science to appeal to customers. They also disseminated the mistaken belief in autointoxication, a the myth that the human body was poisoned by constipation. The legacy of this aggressive marketing is still felt in a widespread overuse, misuse, and abuse of laxatives.
