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23/5/2003

Fly girl, fur girl

The Hood Gallery, Los Angeles

by The Twilight Girls

The final Hood Gallery reception in Los Angeles coincides with the mini film retrospective of Polk-a-Polk Productions screening at the Winslow Garage.

Across the vast expanse of the Camaro's muscular hood a woman flies. Her inane smile and the hugeness of her breasts defy the gravity of her situation, or should that be the anti gravity!

She gracefully swan dives into the traffic and freeway system of Los Angeles, totally tanned and enormously augmented, a natural match for the Los Angeles we know from the personal classifieds and plastic surgery advertisements of the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles of the world's biggest porn industry, the Los Angeles of the Californian blonde haired blue eyed beach girl.

However this woman is not simply advertising a very particular Californian trope. Instead she parodies herself, her only SLIGHTLY digitally enhanced physicality. Concurrently a jab is taken at the phallic associations of the Hood Gallery's premises (a 1989 white Chevrolet Camaro) through plastering it with breasts, so that rather than being a muscle car it becomes a fat car (as breasts ARE mostly fat) and in being made from fat automatically flaccid.

BIO:
The Twilight Girls are Jane Polkinghorne and Helen Hyatt-Johnston, who hail from Sydney Australia. They have been working collaboratively since 1990, laughing at themselves before anyone else gets a chance.

They have shown extensively in Australia, as well as exhibitions in Miami and Los Angeles. Those of you paying attention here in Los Angeles may know Jane through her guest curatorial/ directorship and driving of the Hood Gallery since November 2002.

OPENING RECEPTION:
Winslow Garage Project Space
3540 Winslow Drive
Silverlake
5-7pm Saturday 24th May

We are sad to announce that this is most likely the last exhibition of this incarnation of the Hood Gallery. We want to thank all the artists who exhibited on and people who 'attended' the Hood Gallery over the last few years.

Thanks L.A and thanks America for bringing the world the muscle car!

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