MARK LECKEY: 3 SONGS FROM THE LIVER

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce Mark Leckey’s solo exhibition entitled 3 Songs from the Liver.

November 21, 2024 - February 15, 2025

“Three songs, not from the heart, as he don’t wish to be too sentimental. Nor from the intellect, I don’t want to be too discursive. No, these three songs - and by songs I mean they are short and musical - originate in the liver. The liver was once thought to be a kind of screen for mental images, like a mirror or a pool.

For the past eight years I’ve had a regular slot on the London radio station, NTS and this show has come about through that involvement in music.

To the Old World (Thank You for the Use of Your Body) The bus stop smash was posted on uk-bants and I wanted this squalid little act, shitty in its resolution, to become immense. Exulted, meaning to ‘leap up’ or ‘leap out’: So, for me he exults through the bus stop.” —Mark Leckey

“All three songs are about the point of dissolution. The meaning of Ecstasy is to be displaced, literally to be removed from out of the place you stand. Intense emotions, that make you unstable, untethered, that remove from your normal place of function and towards something groundless, without horizon or a z-axis.” —Mark Leckey