Daisy Lafarge

Sep 30, 2024 | frieze.com | Daisy Lafarge

Looking at Tacita Dean’s Crowhurst (2006), I am confronted by a worrying gap in my memory. It depicts a yew tree said to be 4,000 years old, located on the grounds of a 12th-century church in England – or, more specifically, in Crowhurst, a small village in East Sussex, a few miles from where I went to school.

Jun 28, 2024 | frieze.com | Daisy Lafarge

The spectre of childhood looms large in all lives, but perhaps more than most in that of artist, poet and ‘supermasochist’ Bob Flanagan. Born in 1952 with cystic fibrosis, doctors thought him unlikely to live past the age of 6 or 7. Yet Flanagan outran this fate, well into an adulthood that no one had expected of him. He died in 1996 aged 43.

May 12, 2024 | theguardian.com | Daisy Lafarge

The post hits the floor with a padded thud I recognise as a book delivery. Good – I’m relieved to have an excuse to leave my desk. Writing isn’t going well this morning: a low, buzzy pressure behind my eyes, my head trying to snap backwards off my spine, blood pooling in my legs, everything in my body screaming that I should not be upright. I was 25 when I first got the sense that my head might not be securely attached to my body.

Oct 24, 2023 | nytimes.com | Daisy Lafarge |Sandra Newman

JULIA, by Sandra NewmanAt the outset of “Julia” — Sandra Newman’s retelling of George Orwell’s classic “1984,” this time as seen by Winston Smith’s love interest, Julia — we learn that our protagonist is a mechanic in the Fiction Department. Fiction, along with Records and Research, makes up the Ministry of Truth, which is responsible for producing the official narrative of Oceania, and, since Oceania is a totalitarian state, producing history itself.

Oct 20, 2023 | frieze.com | Hettie Judah |Daisy Lafarge |Princess Julia |Jack O’Brien

Hettie Judah‘Bunnies’ (1997–ongoing)A nylon tumult of lust, vulnerability, assertiveness, polygendered anatomy and a confusion of fuck-me/don’t-touch-me vibes,Sarah Lucas’s ‘Honey Pie’ opened at Sadie Coles HQ just as the world shut down in early 2020. A sculpture show, yes, but also an installation teasing taste, class and the politics of design.