PARTICIPANT INC is pleased to present with it which it as it if it is to be, a solo exhibition by Eve Fowler. For the past several years, Fowler has been working with text by Gertrude Stein to create an ongoing body of work that takes many forms. This exhibition is comprised of a neon sculpture and a new black and white 16mm film titled with it which it as it if it is to be. Projected on video, the film was made over the past two years, during which time Fowler has been filming friends—female artists in their studios in New York and Los Angeles. Part intimate study, part feminist critique, the film is attentive to the working practices of artists unfolding before the camera in real time. The tasks they perform are not particularly remarkable, just whatever they happened to be doing that day. As the lens drifts affectionately over the hands, paint brushes, clay lumps, stacks and piles of studio detritus, we hear, off camera, their voices reading from Gertrude Stein’s “Many Many Women.” Stein's words, spoken aloud, draw attention to the fact that language—like the practices and lives onscreen—is elastic and infinitely variable.

Sunday, Dec 11, 6pm
Of Poetry

A reading organized and hosted by Sophia Le Fraga

Fia Backström
Harry Burke
Cathy de la Cruz
Andrew Durbin
Jameson Fitzpatrick
Ariel Goldberg
Diana Hamilton
Rin Johnson
Shiv Kotecha
Eileen Myles