Krupa Gallery invites you to an event devised by Adriana Jaroslavsky, Nuria López Blanco, Loulou Siem and Ana María Chamucero, as part of their current exhibition 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥. The artists have invited Sean Ashton to read from his novel 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘖𝘪𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬 (Ma Bibliothèque, 2025), composed entirely of sentences that begin with the verbs expect, suppose and avoid. Described by critic Michael Hampton as ‘an unrelenting catalogue of the faded, dead and dying, pop culture piledriven hard into the highbrow’, 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘖𝘪𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬 is the second of three novels written to constraints (𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥 and the forthcoming 𝘈 𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴).
Ashton will be in conversation with writer and translator Anna Aslanyan, author of 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 (Profile, 2021) and several articles on literary constraints, including the Oulipo group and Georges Perec.
Join us for readings and insights from the artists, whose current show is the first of several projects that will use ‘avoidance’ as a curatorial conceit.
Free tickets via Eventbrite.