His photographs combine glamor with the ordinary and the real with the ideal. Roe Ethridge is, for one week, the guest artist of Spotlight, a digital project set b
His photographs combine glamor with the ordinary and the real with the ideal. Roe Ethridge is a guest artist for a week at Spotlight, a digital project launched by the Gagosian Gallery, where his work was on display before closing. During that time, he digs through his photo archive and music…
How do you organize your days?
Roe Ethridge: It’s hard to say they’re organized… I spend a lot of time choosing images for the apps I have on social media. I wasted a few hours exploring my basement for archival research, which takes me back to my twenties, my college and high school years. When my children are there, the home school structures my days, but there is a form of asymmetry that makes me feel unbalanced most of the time. I will move, for example, a Google search “which is a predicate made up of preparing lunch, followed by a call to Zoom, then a new search “How to solve an equation?”… is relentless! Sometimes, when I don’t have kids, I call friends, I’m on racing… And suddenly, the day is over!
Roe Ethridge in her home in Brooklyn (courtesy of the artist)
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I wore a khaki velvet Helmut Lang suit for about a week, just to try to be a little fancy… and then I went back to my normal clothes: jeans, a shirt, and a remade “old” jacket. I don’t run, so the question doesn’t arise.
what do you miss the most?
I can not remember…
what surprises you the most about the time we live in?
She began to act strangely, and most of all. Which makes it even weirder.
Roe Ethridge, “Kitchen Table”, 2002. Sublimation print on aluminum. © Roe Ethridge / courtesy of Gagosian.
what makes you happy the most? Or what annoys you the most?
Then I listened again to music that I love and that I haven’t heard in a long time, and I don’t know exactly since, which seems to enhance the emotional dimension of the songs. What makes me angry… I don’t know exactly, if these aren’t people who pass in front of me and run without masks, as if to say: “Excuse me, I’m training, pfiu pfiu pfiu”. I want to tell them, “Hey, everything’s fine, just cover your bloody mouth!”
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What app do you use the most these days?
Instagram without a doubt, followed closely by InDesign.
what do you dream about at night, and what do you think about the most during the day?
I know my dreams are funny because most mornings I wake up thinking “what was that?” During the day, my thoughts are scattered. I would say that concern is accompanied by a kind of optimism, which tells me that something good could come out of all this.
Roe Ethridge, Old Fruit, 2010. Sublimation print on aluminum. © Roe Ethridge / courtesy of Gagosian.
Which key are you turning?
A mixture of things. I learned a lot about what artists were doing in a time of a dangerous world. That was Matisse in 1918, for example? And then I see markers of the Spanish flu? For Munch, this is clear enough. I remember being told that Turner’s Sky and Friedrich’s Sky were partly created by a huge volcano whose ash swirled around the Earth for years.
What are you reading?
Information. I’ve started Richard Powers’ The World Tree and Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day…but I’m always thinking about Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an island.
What movies or series do you watch?
Ah! Everyone! Too much anyway. I just watched the documentary [The music group] Big Star : Nothing can harm me. I also reviewed Orlando. Tilda Swinton is incredible, and the story serves as a reminder that this new age is not, in fact, brand new.
What kind of music, podcasts or mixes do you listen to?
Big Star, New Order-old Mulatu Astatke, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stevie Wonder, Chet Baker, The Harder They Come, Outkast, Guided By Voices, My Bloody Valentine, Marvin Gaye…
What will you do first when we come out of this time of captivity?
I’m going surfing.
Roe Ethridge, “Hladnjak”, 1999, sublimation print on aluminum. © Roe Ethridge / courtesy of Gagosian.
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The exhibition “Roe Ethridge: Old Fruit”, opened in New York, Gagosian Gallery, before the start of containment, has been extended until May 30, 2020. What are the works that have been posted on the social networks of the gallery, this week, as part of the Artist Spotlight project.
Date of update: May 21, 2020, 6:58 p.m
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