Laila Majid and Louis Newby’s arresting joint exhibition in London explores desire, porn, image consumption – both physical and digital – and how they intersect
depicts a pair of figures, lips locked, one wearing nightmarish facial prosthetics and the other in a latex gimp mask. The image is cinematic – like a film still – and in some ways it is; the drawing is based on a screenshot of a user-uploaded cosplay video on Pornhub. “I find this drawing so romantic, which I know is weird,” says Ema O’Donovan, founder of the Deptford-based gallery Xxijra Hii, which has represented Majid and Newby since 2022 following several joint exhibitions.
There is an exciting energy coming out of the emerging art scene in London at the moment,” says Sam Will, sales associate at Sadie Coles HQ and programmer of The Shop, “and we hope to encourage it by offering our project space The Shop for free to young, London-based galleries who might otherwise not have access to a central London space.
Reading, you notice the similarities between page and skin – gloss runs smooth under finger like freshly shaved arse, a gleaning film of sweat. Maybe that’s why reading feels like a massage, maybe that’s why reading holds you.” Elsewhere, two closeup images lifted from the internet show slogan tattoos on bodies – “my desires are God’s promises” and “the sky is the limit” – show the humour and intimacy of ink’s relationship to our skin.Courtesy the artist/s and Xxijra Hii.
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