A pop-up exhibition curated by The Little Machine at Meadows Woods (Pasadena, California).
Opening
Sunday, October 13 2024, 5-8pm
Featuring works by:
Jingwei Bu
Jazmine Deng
Aldo Iacobelli
Linda Marie Walker
The Little Machine presented Majestic Plural, a pop-up exhibition at Meadows Woods, an artist-run initiative in Pasadena (California, USA). Four Australian artists had works smuggled into the suitcase of travelling curator Eleen Deprez on her way to Chicago. Majestic plural (pluralis majestatis) is the use of a plural pronoun by a singular person, in this context it reflects on the interplay between the four artists, each bringing their own identity to a new audience.
Jazmine Deng presents a preview of her video work The Taoist and Enlightened Monkey, Sun WuKong, which will featured in the Adelaide Film Festival Reflective Screen this year. The work is a layered animation incorporating images of Jazmine’s father, a recurring figure in her practice. Both naive and anguished, the piece resembles a sweet, collage-like family portrait that gradually transforms into an obsessive exploration of paternal connection. It poignantly explores the tension between our current selves and how we see our parents through the eyes of our younger selves.
Jingwei Bu exhibits ten pieces from her ongoing series Flow, which captures improvisational acts of mark-making as tea is poured, creating small transient gestures. These delicate drawings, also featured in Let Beauty Be, 顺其自然, our exhibition in Adelaide, embody the ephemeral and intangible of the moment and our desperate attempt of control.
Linda Marie Walker presents several stained cloths, created by hammering plants and flowers into fabric. As in her works currently displayed at The Little Machine, the gentle marks of hand-stitching playfully contrast with the natural stains, offering a contemplative exploration of materiality. On a shelf, a necklace gifted by Walker rests quietly, its green, red, white, and black beads standing as a subtle act of solidarity with Palestine.
Aldo Iacobelli shares a collection of black ink, graphite, and gouache works, many reflecting on his time spent in Naples before migrating to Australia as a teenager. The imagery evokes dreamlike, half-remembered scenes of Italy, including the haunting wide-eyed Pulcinella figures and undefined architectural spaces that blend nostalgia and ambiguity.
Photography: Eleen Deprez






















