MAUVEINE
Installation views, Mauveine, 2021
01–10–21 til 01–11–21
Tom Galesloot | Mauveine
INDEBT is excited to present Mauveine, an installation of paintings by Tom Galesloot (1985 NL). Curated by Jelmer Wijnstroom.
“It was difficult to get a nurse.
Larry sends me a drawing full of eyes,
wetland gleam. We lay our flowers down.
The destroying angel has twelve wings:
pitch pine, red cedar. Black cherries, shadbush.
Grabs hold of evergreens on the way, waiting
to reach them. Skids down the hill of wet leaves.
The purple boundary is one limit of our perception.
Numbers connect with names in the Book of
These we know because there is a stone.
They are so close, one on top of another.
Like an arm thrown out, a gray arrow points:
down below in the bowl of leaves.
In 1856 a boy of eighteen created mauveine, mauve,
10,000 shells to make a single gram of purple until
it is a cape, shroud, the gown worn in remembrance.
We climb the top edge as if we are a tightrope.
There is no map and each wrong
of even carrying the bodies reminded him of the early
away in the woods, the fear of attending them.
And cold, hidden
white carnations small as a baby’s fist, damp.
Larry who carries a kind of funeral
on either side a church aisle, as this
ewers. Broad leaves of black oak and locust lit
the fire road which from above is a green.
I pulled off Route 6 into the sand”
- Twelve Wings, Kelle Groom
InfraWade, 140 x 200cm
Epson UltraChrome inkjet on canvas, 2021
Epson UltraChrome inkjet on canvas, 2021
Gen, 80 x 180cm, oil on canvas, 2021
Installation views, Mauveine, 2021
Installation views, Mauveine, 2021