Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present All the Reasons We Never Tell Someone We Love Them… They’re Worthless, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Bahamian-American artist April Bey.
The exhibition emerges from Bey’s yearlong attempt to date and find romantic love in the United States. Approaching “courting” with the observational curiosity of an alien attempting to understand human behavior on Earth, Bey collected stories, experiences, encounters, and observations along the way. What begins as a humorous investigation of dating, desire, avoidance, sex, and companionship becomes a reckoning with the ways people give, receive, misunderstand, withhold, and lose LOVE.
The exhibition expands this search into different forms of connection. Friends, animals, community, lovers and the Self become portals through which intimacy is negotiated. All the Reasons We Never Tell Someone We Love Them… They’re Worthless, asks what remains when the fantasy of finding someone else stops organizing the story, and whether searching for romantic love might reveal the many relationships already sustaining us.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 31, 4 - 6pm
*The Artist requests your most festive garb.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm