Ello Govna

Robert Hawkins &
Bora Akinciturk

At The Residence Gallery, London, UK

Curated by Ed Leeson & Ingrid Welsh

Text by Natalya Serkova

Photography by Rob Harris

Dog drools

grass grows over the room

like in the old, ruined Macondo

where time stopped

and ants took the little one away

mashed together with rats and mammoths

not killed in time

here to stay

not extinct

 

wizard waves his wand

and hopes to perform a miracle

and maybe the wizard can manage

if he makes it before

grass grows over the room

and the last mammoth is caught

and eaten

and statue is made out of mammoth fangs

it will be found in 20,000 years

and someone told me that it was found yesterday

 

you can build a city from coinage of gold

make it home for white doves

which will be a sign for the inhabitants

that the city is full of virtuous news

even despite the fact

that doves barely had a saying in choosing of a nest

 

no sinister evil will be in this city 

and if someone aims at a woman with a gun

if only under premise of a very good reason

the city will be populated by knights

full of courage and bravery

full of memories of mammoths

who never managed to be killed

but who

despite this

could not befriend ants and rats

couldn’t stay alive

and yet became extinct

and yet became extinct

Installation view of centre wall
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Robert Hawkins, Millions of Gold Coins, 2020, Oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
Robert Hawkins, Millions of Migrating Lemmings, 2020, Oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
Robert Hawkins, Boeing 747 Ranch, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
Robert Hawkins, Abandoned Motel Room with Hawkins Painting, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
Robert Hawkins, Boeing 747 Ranch, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
Bora Akinciturk, Once Upon a Time in Eurasia, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
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Bora Akinciturk, How's your apocalypse coming along, 2020, Oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
Bora Akinciturk, Made in Britain, 2020, Oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
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Robert Hawkins, Mastadon Hunt Finale, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
Bora Akinciturk, Foot, 2020, Oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm
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Bora Akinciturk, Frozen, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
Robert Hawkins, The Magician's Hand with Wand, 2020, Oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm
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