Simon Speiser. like biting into sugar cane

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Both the exhibition and book are intended to co-habit the same arena, operating in and around each other in a pas de deux that maps the artist’s many interests. Ranging from science fiction, erotica, animalism and the exploration of worlds both distant and near, these interests mark Speiser as an artist of the already-present future, distinct with a singular visual and text vocabulary.

In the gallery space of Büro BDP, Speiser exhibits a number of prints of his work that incorporate manga and anime imagery, spacecraft and sex, they act like timestamps of a hallucinatory imagination. In tandem with the physical exhibit is the book of the same name that is printed in an initial limited edition run. These texts, collecting for the first time the artist’s writing, some of which have previously appeared alongside or as part of his artwork and exhibitions, allows the reader, in the words of Mark von Schlegell, to ‘encounter perhaps the strangest recognizable texts yet concocted outside her own head’.