EJ Hill: Twice As Good Is Too Much
3006 W 7th St #220 Los Angeles CA 90005
Saturday, November 16 at 3:00 PM 6:00 PM
Ends Jan 4, 2020
EJ, I’m so glad we’re meeting here. When did you learn that we’ve always loved you? That this is your home? If we could stay close enough to outlive the need to look outside, how would we choose to feed each other? What would you like to grow? Rest a little while here, on this lip of paper. Ease into your time. Tomorrow will always be there, and if not, we’ll rest a while longer. There are lilies in the bedroom. A sweet rose gold breeze floats across your surface, coloring the dreams beneath. It has always been Us. Teaching through touch and smell. Sharing a buffet of holdover grammar, shaping sound. A group project in constant evolution. Breathe deeply here. When the walls go invisible, we’ll still see you. The rest can go. We’ll rebuild when we’re good and ready. All love, Us. Twice As Good Is Too Much–EJ Hill’s first exhibition in Los Angeles since his 78-day durational performance at Made in L.A. 2018–continues his exploration of the obstacles and pressures Black youths face in the American educational system. In an act of rest and refusal, there will be no body laboring in the center of the gallery. Instead, Hill offers a declarative chalkboard with words rendered in his signature neon. In this new lesson, part of an ongoing series of unlearnings, Hill repudiates the familiar adage that Black people have to be twice as good to get half as much. –Savannah Wood
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