GREED
April 25 - May 11, 2025
Alex Bag, Jacky Connolly, Madeleine Hines, Becket MWN
PRESS RELEASE
Madeleine Hines, Black - Scratching and Creasing Throughout, oil on linen, 91.4x121.9cm,
2025,
GDL525. [The painting by Madeleine Hines reproduces a close-up of the sole of a shoe
— an accumulation of scratches, light reflections, and dirt —
abstracted from a found image of the shoe-piece re-circulating and sold online].
Madeleine Hines, Black - Scratching and Creasing Throughout, oil on linen, 91.4x121.9cm (detail), 2025,GDL525. [A detail of the piece abstracts a dense close-up pattern of signs of wear at the center of the sole
].
Madeleine Hines, Red - Deal of the Century, oil on linen, 30.5x40.6cm, 2025, GDL525. [A red painting depicts a crust of dirt and a chewingum stuck to the sole of a shoe, reproduced from a found photograph used to advertise the piece on a resale platform, part of the same series. The painting is installed above the couch centered in the middle frame of the image].Madeleine Hines, Red - Deal of the Century, oil in linen, 30.5x40.6cm, 2025, GDL525. [The image centers on the painting—an abstract shape on a red background—with visible, still-wet brushstrokes].Jacky Connolly, Descent into Hell, 37.53 min, colour, sound, 2022, GDL525. [The still of the video frames a character
from behind in a deserted casino, dressed in a short-sleeved, rumpled shirt and bathed in blue light, on a large carpet patterned by lines bending and foldings. In the background empty seatings and slot machines].Jacky Connolly, Descent into Hell, 37.53 min, colour, sound, 2022, GDL525. [Against a red-clouded sky, an airplane nosedives downward. The clouds swirl in circular shapes as the horizon lights up with thunders].Jacky Connolly, Descent into Hell, 37.53 min, colour, sound, 2022, GDL525. [The shot from the top of the room
focuses on the interior design elements: a black-striped white carpet, black seating arranged cut into rounded shapes, a red curtain on the left side of the frame, and a standing lamp].
Becket MWN, Window Tongues, a text performed on April 25th with Annie Goodner, Huub Kooijman, Iiris Riihimaki, Nadia de Vries, Val Dachev, 2025, GDL525. [First page of the print of the scripts by Becket MWN, leftovers of the six-voice perfomance. A note on the top left side corner of the paper and a yellow marker denotes the reader].GREED, installation view (2025), GDL525. [
The image centers on the table and script White light from a cloudy day filters through the window, casting a shadowed, contrasted glow on Madeleine’s painting from behind. A rounded, slightly prominent glass light fixture is installed in the middle of the living room].
Becket MWN, Window Tongues, 2025. [Stills from a video recording of the performance, a projector screens on the readers, doubling them in their shadows, alternating white frames with different images functioning as source references, inputs and juxtapossiotion to the writing of the text].