GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE OPENING RECEPTION : SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 6–9 PM SADE GALLERY LA / 204 SOUTH AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 WWW.S-A-D-E.LA [email protected]

Press Release SADE LA is pleased to present Trader Joe's Lounge, an immersive installation from Los Angeles based artist duo, Grupo Anan. Trader Joe's lounge is comprised of fifty four unique paintings which make up the furnishings, architecture and decor of the gallery's interior space. The flattened tiki imagery which cover the surfaces of the paintings, serve as a formal reflection of the ways in which notions of 'other' have been funneled into the cultural cocktail that is the Tiki experience. Many of the paintings surfaces have been intentionally left unfixed allowing the ink from which they have been printed to become manipulated and changed over time as viewers rub, spill, drip, scuff and generally utilize them for their practical use as furnishings in the Tiki bar space. This process makes it unclear as to whether the viewer is actually erasing or participating in the production of the artwork. Trader Joe's Lounge will be on view from October 20-November 1,2015 with curated events throughout the duration of the exhibition.

GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE

Grupo Anan Foreword: We had just come out of a long Grupo conversation. One that spoke of a forest, extraordinarily lush, vibrant, full of diverse plant life, full of colour, spectral shades of green, pink, yellow. It was warm, we felt safe. There were all kinds of leaves, all kinds of flowers, stems bending heavily beneath the weight of the pollen. Everything was dripping with dew, everything was dripping with nectar, everything bristling with potential, everything bristling with generosity. There were small ponds scattered around, reflecting perfectly the image of their surroundings. Leaning over one of them, we saw ourselves, inside a kind of perfection, inside a perfect image, a perfect replica. A replica so realistic that we actually reached out, toward it, as if we had arrived there at that moment, in order to confront ourselves inside this image - this was a profound meeting. But as soon as we touched it the whole scene dissipated, the whole scene evaporated. And we realized right then, that this scenario was quite simply a mirage of our minds, a fantasy. And something peculiar was occurring, we were actually inside that gap, that space, where things are still malleable and manoeuvrable, inside the thing, in all its complete stillness, the thing before it occurs, the thought before its manifestation, we were there, really there, right there, and we knew it. It was a while later, during a trip to Home Depot, that we began to realize the purpose of this encounter, that it had actually been an insight into a violent act that was at that very moment occurring. We had been inside the original forest, the undivided forest, and we were experiencing the separation of things. The abstraction and the simulation, the flattening. Funny isn’t it, that simulation is so often the very best way to get at a thing. Because in actuality the borders are absolutely blurry, absolutely ungraspable. We build rooms, and houses, and rooms in houses, and anything can come in as long as it can be contained, as long as we can dismantle it and get it up the stairs. Nothing too big, nothing too small. Things just so. Things just right.

SADE / 204 S AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 / WWW.S-A-D-E.LA

Grupo Anan was born in Mexico City in 2015 somewhere between the pre and post classical sections of the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia. Grupo Anan considers time like a game of Jenga amongst friends in some international youth hostel somewhere, pulling away the wooden blocks of written history, prescribed futures, and the linearities that were created, defined and presented to us (as .. something), and allowing things to simply fall. Flattening the plane (no hills or valleys here), but simply a celebratory merging of potential. Considering imaginary space, geographical space, energy, matter, conspiracy theory, personal reality, human conditioning, neuroses, empathy, pain, joy, love and spirituality as all woven from the very same fabric. At it’s core, Grupo Anan exists as an artist duo, meanwhile incorporating the efforts of outside collaborators to produce works that sometimes blur the line between author, participant, viewer and cohort. Maybe we are all Grupo Anan. We met recently with some very ancient figure. The figure told us that we were also them and they, us. This left us a little perplexed but we eventually realised that what they were attempting to communicate was that we, as in, us, have the power to decide for ourselves how we can connect with and create meaning from that which surrounds us.

SADE / 204 S AVENUE 19 / LA / CA / 90031 / WWW.S-A-D-E.LA

GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE

INSTALLATION VIEWS

INSTALLATION VIEWS

GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE

INSTALLATION VIEWS

INSTALLATION VIEWS

GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE

INSTALLATION VIEWS

INSTALLATION VIEWS

GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE

INSTALLATION VIEWS

INSTALLATION VIEWS

GRUPO ANAN /// TRADER JOE’S LOUNGE

INSTALLATION VIEWS

INSTALLATION VIEWS

Wall Mask, Dark Brown Ink, Canvas 38 X 10 X 4 in.

Wall figure Light Brown Ink, Primed Canvas 38 X 10 X 4 in.

Bar Front 1, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 39.5 X 31.5 in.

Bar Front 2, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 39.5 X 31.5 in.

Small Wall Mask, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 18.5 X 6.5 X 3.5 in.

Back of Bar 1, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 60 X 48 in.

Back of Bar 2, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 60 X 48 in.

Bar Top, 2015 Ink, Linen 78.5 X 5.75 in.

Bar Roof 1, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 42 X 32 in.

Bar Roof 2, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 42 X 32 in.

Bar Roof 3, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 42 X 32 in.

Bar Roof 4, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 42 X 32 in.

Bar Pillar Front 1,2, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 74 X 10.5 in.

Bar Pillar Right 1,2, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 74 X 10.5 in.

Bar Pillar Left 1,2, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 74 X 10.5 in.

Surfboard, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 52 X 14 in.

Bar Stool Right 1 - 3, 2015 Ink, Primed Linen 30 X 16 in.

Bar Stool Left 1 - 3, 2015 Ink, Primed Linen Canvas 30 X 16 in.

Table Stool Left 1-6, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 19.7 X 59.5 in.

Table Stool Front 1-6, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 19.7 X 59.5 in.

Table Stool Right 1-6, 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 19.7 X 59.5 inches

Neon sign 2015 Ink, Primed Canvas 24 X 24 in.

Banner 2015 Ink, Vinyl