Marysville, Oh Holy Land: PRESS RELEASE

213 Kupfer presents Marysville, Oh Holy Land– a film screening by Loreum, the alias for artist Tyler Eash. Represented by Nicoletti Contemporary, Loreum is a Marysville, California native and a London-based artist. Marysville, Oh Holy Land is a project, taking place in two different countries, simultaneously running at Four Fourteen Gallery, California as well as being hosted at Kupfer, London. The project consists of film screening taking place at Kupfer, exhibiting works that are currently being shown across the world in Marysville, bringing to light the historic depravity of Loreum’s hometown to the international stage.

a vision is a hope you have you fear will never happen

but it is not fear but desire 

and muscled arms from working that wield a sword with fire 

and work, more work, and working 

and hope, and hope, but no

because rarely do we taste the fruit from seeds we sow 

and this we too deeply know 

we must be hopeless to be fearless 

so we will not fear when hope fails

Loreum, excerpt “Marysville, Oh Holy Land”

InMarysville, Oh Holy Land, Loreum lays out the scene of a certain California. Not a California of wealth & movie glamour but a land of historic loss; a dust bowl settlement littered with industrial collapse, human strife and false promise. Loreum utilises this imagery of a domestic past to become a form of a religious reliquary. Though lost and forgotten as if uncovered from the sand, Marysville becomes a staging ground or chapel for their artworks. Serving as a kind of legacy of effect for a spiritual fictionalisation and simultaneously, a very real articulation of familial struggle. Residual artefacts of once living agricultural animals may become the hyde/skin and canvas for a seraphim’s angel wings, or the pigmented layers of dust adorning a moth’s back. Warm and soft, though ever watchful, surveying eyes intrude. 

Stanley J Buglass, Kupfer