February 19th - March 19th 2022

Hannah Black, Jake Cruzen, Aria Dean, Benjamin Echeverria,
Luke Haeger, Olivia Hill, Sanya Kantarovsky, Chris Pecaro,
Jordan Wolfson

Organized by Francis Irv in collaboration with Aria Dean. Hosted by As it Stands LA.

We love a halfway point, a b-side. We love a dubiously heartfelt approach. We love them for the same reason we love a child: innocence not quite escaped—still clunky in the codes of sublimation, showing a bit too much of themselves, of us.

A Fool’s Game Played By Cowards posits that art might be nothing more or less than an eternal navigation of one’s own tendencies toward foolhardiness, toggling of sincerity, flight from cowardice, desperation for bravery.