Rob and Lizzi met over twenty years in the past. Since then, due to the friendship, the tenderness and the curiosity they’ve for each other, they by no means overpassed one another. They each nonetheless stay in New York, the place I met with them final winter.

In his studio in Prospect Park, Rob is adopted all over the place by his canine Gilda; a melancholic big and a tiny genius, the 2 of them make for an enthralling odd couple, and their picture alone attests to Rob’s sense of irony and his candour as an artist.

Lizzi has lately moved to a studio on the opposite aspect of the river, on the seventh flooring of a Monetary District high-rise. She welcomed us amidst an array of discovered objects, every of which carries a reminiscence or a narrative. Although she is aware of a few of them higher than others—a costume as soon as worn by Yoko Ono, Ivan Julian’s piano—it appears as in the event that they have been all made for her. Her studio is nowhere close to excessive up sufficient to see the sky, however she is aware of when the solar hits the constructing subsequent door and mirror its mild again at her.

Equally, this exhibition is about two individuals who have discovered one of the best angle and the proper distance to take a look at one another, and who, whether or not via ability or divine consideration, have discovered methods to shine mild forwards and backwards at each other and be illuminated in return.

at Air de Paris
till July 13, 2024