Installation View\Day [Sunny] (0) | spleen iiiii | Allison Arkush, Maccabee Shelley, Luc Trahand, Sinclair Vicisitud. July 27 - September 7, 2024.

Luc Trahand. boothboothboothbooth. 2024. Found wood, chain, pyrography &chalk, electronics: Behringer Dynamic Microphone, Arduino Uno R3 Microcontroller (coded using Arduino IDE), Bass Shaker 50W, Aiyima Amps 160W, UART Control Serial Music Player Module, HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor Module. (Booth Installation constructed in collaboration with Sinclair Vicisitud.) Approx. 4 x 4 x 6 feet.

Luc Trahand. boothboothboothbooth. 2024.

Luc Trahand. boothboothboothbooth. 2024. [Detail.]

Luc Trahand. boothboothboothbooth. 2024. Placed: Humdrum. Edition 1 of 5. Book.

Luc Trahand. bodybody. 2024. Metal door sheet, foam, concrete, plaster, shellac, wood stain, coffee. [Installed with steel chain.] Approx. 6 x 1 x 2 feet.

Luc Trahand. Untitled Component of Luc Trahand and Sinclair Vicisitud. boothboothboothboothboothbooth. 2024. Placed: Humdrum. Edition 3 of 5. Book.

Luc Trahand. Humdrum. Edit 3 of 5. Book. [Open: pages 11-12.]

Luc Trahand and Sinclair Vicisitud. boothboothboothboothboothbooth. 2024. Found wood, found bedside table, pyrography, chalk, (carcasses: metal structure, canvas cloth, plaster, spray paint, chain, chair legs), electronics: Behringer Dynamic Microphone, Arduino Uno R3 Microcontroller (coded using Arduino IDE), Bass Shaker 50W, Aiyima Amps 160W, UART Control Serial Music Player Module, HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor Module. Approx. 8x4x5 feet.

Luc Trahand and Sinclair Vicisitud. boothboothboothboothboothbooth. 2024. [Detail.]

Luc Trahand and Sinclair Vicisitud. boothboothboothboothboothbooth. 2024. {Looking-in.}

Luc Trahand and Sinclair Vicisitud. boothboothboothboothboothbooth. 2024. {Looking-down.}

Allison Arkush. Fence Anchored Chair-Mauve, with Detached Corner. 2024.

Luc Trahand. boothbooth. 2024. Found wood, curtain, canvas dropcloth, pyrography & chalk, electronics: Behringer Dynamic Microphone, Arduino Uno R3 Microcontroller (coded using Arduino IDE), Bass Shaker 50W, Aiyima Amps 160W, UART Control Serial Music Player Module, HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor Module. (Booth Installation constructed in collaboration with Sinclair Vicisitud.) Approx.10 x 3 x 3 feet.

Luc Trahand. boothbooth. 2024. {Outside} [Detail.]

Luc Trahand. boothbooth. 2024. {Inside.}

Luc Trahand. boothbooth. 2024. {Inside.} [Detail.]

Luc Trahand. boothbooth. 2024. {Inside.} Placed: Humdrum. Edition 2 of 5. Book.

Luc Trahand. bodybodybodybody. 2024. Metal door sheet, foam, concrete, plaster, shellac, canvas cloth, epoxy resin. Approx. 6 x 3 x 2 feet.

Luc Trahand. bodybodybodybody. 2024. {Others in background.}

Allison Arkush. Fence Anchored Chair-Mauve: Detached Corner. 2024. Found rolling chair, hydrocal, gravel, dried plant (unidentified species). 14 x 33 x 30 inches.

Allison Arkush. Fence Anchored Chair-Floral. 2024. Childhood rolling chair, hydrocal. 35 x26 x27 inches, not including scribble. {Others in background.}

Luc Trahand. bodybody. 2024. Metal door sheet, foam, concrete, plaster, shellac, wood stain, coffee.

Luc Trahand

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Exhibitions Images and Recordings: View.

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CURRENTS, RECENTS

+ May 3, 2025: Performance during the middle of the end by Maccabee Shelley at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (Los Angeles).

circa ten to the ninety (iteration ii)
foad dizadji-bahmani, saun santipreecha, luc trahand
Position: Embedded within gallery exhibition.
+ Release: File.
+ Project Statement: Document.
+ Manual: Instructions.

Bio

French-American interdisciplinary artist Luc Trahand’s work spans multiple mediums and forms from music and sound to language, film, and sculpture.

His most recent work, HUM•DRUM is an installation at Reisig & Taylor Contemporary Gallery in LA [installed as part of spleen iiiii (July 27 - September 7, 2024)] that focused on the deconstruction of meaning in semiotics. It brings together sculpture, sound, pyrography, bookmaking, and boothmaking in a contrivance of the spect-actor's perspectives.

He served as co-producer and Max architectural engineer for Saun Santipreecha on his international solo exhibition Per/formative Cities, A Nest of Triptychal Performances in Rome (Feb. 29 - March 15, 2024), as well as for Santipreecha's ...These Things That Divide The World In Two… engaging with the works of Samuel Beckett.

He is a multi-instrumentalist who studied composition and music production at Musicians Institute, Los Angeles and has previously released several EPs and an album, In Coherence (2020). The series of sound works DÉS.ILLUSIONS (2023) was accompanied by an adjoining essay that sought to decorticate contemporary illusions. His 2022 project Polarity interwove music, language, dance and film into a striking gesture that expressed “the cognitive dissonances of the engaged modern mind.”

He lives and works between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

{C.04/30/2025. Biographical information courtesy of the artist.}

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Archive\ Exhibitions, Installations, Performances

- May 3, 2025. /Performance. Internal. [During: the middle of the end by Maccabee Shelley | Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (Los Angeles)].

circa ten to the ninety (iteration ii)
foad dizadji-bahmani, saun santipreecha, luc trahand
Position: Embedded within gallery exhibition.
+ Release: File.
+ Project Statement: Document.
+ Manual: Instructions.

- July 27 - September 7, 2024. Group Exhibition.

spleen iiiii
Maccabee Shelley, Luc Trahand, Sinclair Vicisitud, Allison Arkush.
+ Reference: Checklist.
+ Release: File; Curate LA; Artforum.
+ Press: The Best of Art in Los Angeles: Fall 2024 (Curate LA: September 4, 2024); This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: July 25-31, 2024).
+ Performance + Event: Press Release. Saturday, September 7, 6:30pm - 9pm. Closing Reception with Performance of Humdrum reading by Luc Trahand, followed by a screening of the film Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson.
+ Exhibition Documentation : View.

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Inquire for Information, Image Details, or Status of Exhibited Works:

gallery@reisigandtaylorcontemporary.com

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circa ten to the ninety (iteration ii). foad dizadji-bahmani, saun santipreecha, luc trahand. May 3, 2025. Performance.

[During: the middle of the end by Maccabee Shelley.]

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Documentation

+ Release: File.
+ Project Statement: Document.
+ Manual: Instructions.

spleen iiiii. Allison Arkush, Maccabee Shelley, Luc Trahand, Sinclair Vicisitud. July 27 - September 7, 2024. Group Exhibition.

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Included in spleen iiiii

Humdrum (Sound/Text Installation) Statement by Luc Trahand*

Within the contrived apotheosis of the white gallery, the echolalias recall the rhythms of the heart—”l’organe amoureux de la répétition.”[1] While the ruptured spleen weakens, the infections of thought can propagate. What starts as nested addition and subtraction becomes a palimpsestic, immersing monologism that is unequaled. A paradox underlies experience: the belief of reality. Architects of our incarceration, bound to an incalculable entropy, one decides what cell to walk into, and, unfreely willing, locks the door. Comfort washes over as one learns the square inches of crusty cement flooring and plastered wall, gradually coloring in the complete unknowns with vacuous understandings. To these constructed confines venerated, our appraisal rings, inebriated by sweet no-things.

*{Humdrum refers to Trahand’s textworks (books) and correlative soundworks included in the collaborative installation works (built with Sinclair Vicisitud) incorporated in the exhibition spleen iiiii (July 27 - August 31, 2024): installation statement; link to project. Images of books courtesy of the artist.}

[1] Gilles Deleuze, Différence et Répétition.

Luc Trahand. Bookbook. 2024. Editions 1-3, 1-4. Humdrum project. Links to included Texts: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3 {Cover Images Organized Left-Right.} Sound is individually linked via clicking on the Book Cover Images above, or collectively available by visiting this link.

Maccabee Shelley

Jackie Castillo