Submission
February 13, 2024

A thousand good mornings

Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow @Des Bains, London
January 25 — February 22, 2024

A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024

A work never feels truly finished.

A Thousand Good Mornings presents two paintings by Nour El Saleh and two sculptural works by Benjamin Orlow. Compositions not obviously related but distributed in space and revealing one common feature: holes. Hung on the walls and laying on the floor are sets of visual documentations. A nose-line, a mandible protruding, the shape of a throat. A multitude of fingers insinuating an uncanny gesture.

A gaze – a sense of belonging. Hollows, body parts, roofs, and disparate architectures. Each reference acting as a mirror of the other. Leading us into an unexpected set of correspondences.

A greasy thick hair whorl.

Figures, made of clay, wood, bronze and paint engender sculptural prototypes within fictional homes. Weirdly familiar – universally recognisable.

A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024
A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024
A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024
A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024
A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024
A thousand good mornings, Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow, Des Bains, London, 2024
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2023 Bronze, shoe polish 41x23x13 cm
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2023 Bronze, shoe polish 41x23x13 cm
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Benjamin Orlow, Ritual City, 2024 Clay, graphite, wood, tarp Dimensions variable
Nour El Saleh, Tampered Sundial, 2024 Oil on Canvas 260x155 cm
Nour El Saleh, Tampered Sundial, 2024 Oil on Canvas 260x155 cm
Nour El Saleh, Tampered Sundial, 2024 Oil on Canvas 260x155 cm
Nour El Saleh, Untitled, 2024 Oil on Canvas 210x190 cm
Nour El Saleh, Untitled, 2024 Oil on Canvas 210x190 cm
Nour El Saleh, Untitled, 2024 Oil on Canvas 210x190 cm
Nour El Saleh, Untitled, 2024 Oil on Canvas 210x190 cm
Nour El Saleh, Untitled, 2024 Oil on Canvas 210x190 cm
Nour El Saleh, Untitled, 2024 Oil on Canvas 210x190 cm

A thousand good mornings
Nour el Saleh and Benjamin Orlow

Des Bains, London
January 25 — February 22, 2024

Curation: Maria Valeria Biondo

Photography: showpickle / All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and the gallery.

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