Exhibition Dates: April 14, 2023 - May 20, 2023 Opening Reception: 6 - 9 PM Friday, April 14, 2023 Artist Talk: 6 PM Friday, April 21, 2023

ART IS BOND. is proud to present interiority complex, a solo exhibition featuring the work of visual artist Lovie Olivia.

Lovie Olivia’s “interiority complex” aims to be a site of engagement, a visual reverie and survey of the florid poetics of Black Interiority. This body of work mines, retrieves and reimagines matter recovered from the cache of Black cultural production, i.e, art, music, literature, politics and design. It engages visually with a bounty of aesthetics, decorative remains, and rich detritus that persist in our culture despite pervasive Anti- Blackness, Homophobia and Sexism. Additionally, the exhibition prioritizes Queer, Southern, and Womanist contributions to American urbanity in hopes to jubilate the polylithic nature of the Black Diaspora.

Olivia sparks fresh narratives by interlacing and contrasting gestures and marks of our collective expressions. Obsessed with the materiality of plaster, preoccupied with design and zealous of painting she strives to add a fresh aesthetic to classical fresco techniques by employing a contemporary application. The paintings and objects are manifested through a non- traditional performance of excavation that cross-fertilises data, imagery and other minutiae with familiar motifs and patterns to communicate a sense of depth, monumentality and retrospection. The immersive environment of “interiority complex” reveres colloquial expressions of beauty, leisure, liberty and sovereignty. interiority complex opens on Friday April 14, 2023, at 6pm.