Peoples, Alee: Hello My Friend

Description

Insert Press, paperback

Publication Date: June 05, 2023

Publisher Marketing: “Hello My Friend! Alee Peoples’ transformative, evocative work invites us to talk, joke, chat, imagine and playthe same participation you may have among friendsopposing the expected and ultimately harmful closures of capitalist culture, and rejoicing together in the infinite gift of shared camaraderie. See you soon.” Ekrem Serdar Hello My Friend is an exhibition catalog of Alee Peoples’ show at Insert Press General Projects from March 24 to June 2, 2023, including an essay by Ekrem Serdar and full documentation of the show. Alee Peoples is an innovative multimedia artist whose work explores the intersections of text, pattern, and visual communication. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT, 4th Wall, and Elephant. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto), and New York Film Festival, as well as museums and spaces including SFMoMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence), and The Nightingale (Chicago). She is inspired by pedestrian histories and pop song lyrics and is invested in the hand-made.