Issey Kang, Giulia Ley,
Callum Hansen & Rowan Miles
Lap Dance
3 June - 18th June 2025
Lap Dance is simultaneously a group show, a development of a collaborative aesthetic, and a critique of the contemporary private view. The work you see here has been constructed and developed by the Neo-Neo Luddites (est. 2025).
We know that the audience for art has many crossovers with the (albeit limited) audience for fashion. In the photographic series Artists (I), (II), and (III), the artist's persona is captured in the guise of the fashion model, the muse, or the mannequin: saleability, desire, and creativity are rendered together in a marketable package.
An artist must be media literate and archaic, esoteric but professional. Lap Dance is duplicitous: imitating the sanitised object while investigating the unsafe. You are invited by Convite (2025). On closer inspection, the small, reclined purple and pink figures who form the letters of your invitation are clothed in a neon Zara jumpsuit.
The show featured a limited-edition run of 200 posters.
