Hannah Hoffman Gallery

Sweet Days of Discipline
July 16 - August 20, 2022
2504 W 7th St., Suite C, Los Angeles, CA 90057

Behrang Karimi
Bracha L. Ettinger
Brook Hsu
Caitlin MacQueen
Diane Severin Nguyen
Hervé Guibert
Joseph Yaeger
Maggie Friedman

In our lives at school, each of us, if we had a little vanity, would establish a facade, a kind of double life, affect a way of speaking, walking, looking. When I saw her writing I couldn’t believe it. We almost all had the same kind of handwriting, uncertain, childish, with round, wide ‘o’s. Hers was completely affected. (Twenty years later I saw something similar in a dedication Pierre Jean Jouve had written on a copy of Kyrie.) Of course I pretended not to be surprised, I barely glanced at it. But secretly I practiced. And I still write like Frédérique today, and people tell me I have beautiful, interesting handwriting.

A reader, in collaboration with des pair books will be printed on the occasion of the exhibition.

• Jaeggy, Fleur. Sweet Days of Discipline, New Directions Books, New York, 2019, p. 3.