Francisco Zhan,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,About

Do you want me to stop dancing or
Start being a statue
Or take painkillers and do kungfu

2021

Video

Words from The Time I Thought that the Devil Actually wore Prada, 2019

Written with and read by Yuki Nishimura

Read the Interview with Hamish MacPherson at STILL LIFE

The Time I Thought that the Devil Actually Wore Prada

SET Lewisham, London

14 – 24 November 2019

At the Sauna
Stool slips
Floor slaps
Stabs spine
Sets it to stone

I don’t get sick pay
I might still be able to do my next booking

Dragged into the ambulance
Receiving painkillers instead of a dismissal letter
What’s your name?
I've never had this many painkillers
Are you male or female?
I've never had this many painkillers
Emergency contact?
I've never had this many painkillers in my life
Yeah we give this stuff to women in labour it's strong

summertime sadness
Meat as painkiller not addressing the real problem
I’m a veggie eating an emotional ham and cheese toastie
On the runway

I mean in the waiting room
Turning a blind eye to my income falling short
And still not having enough work
To be buying toasties

Left is right

Right is wrong
I don't get sick pay
Right is left
And right is wrong
Why don’t I get more painkillers

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Receiving a dismissal letter instead of 6 painkillers

Signed Sauna Boss

Sent to Manager’s Manager as photo

Forwarded to me via text

Byee

Like a love resignation letter

To someone I hate hating

Posturing as a love letter

I wanted to be a cake
But you didn't want to bake it

I shoot an arrow then paint the bullseye
But Wait don't shoot the messenger
Or else she’ll eat my sandwich
And my homework
Bitch
Then you replied
Yea is really painful
I hope u are okay However also
Story reminds of me Japanese
厄落とし or 厄払い which work for
bad luck exorcize your accumulated bad luck

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– Written with Yuki Nishimura

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Impostor syndrome, 2015–2019, Glazed stones, porcelain, resin, plaster, pigment, solar print on found towel

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The time I thought that the devil actually wore Prada

2017–2019, Glazed earthenware, resin, plaster, pigment, solar and mono print on found towels, stool

Bae, 2015–2019, Glazed stoneware, solar print on found towel

New in town, 2019, Found towels, labels, inkjet print on calico and paper, glazed stoneware, stone, socks on heels

Design by Matthew Morishima

Performance with Yuki Nishimura

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In the day I can't eat all I think of is you / At night I can't sleep I'm hungry

(De dia não como só penso em ti / De noite não durmo tenho fome)

2017–2018, Glazed stoneware, pen on paper

,	Mini giant, 2018–2019, Glazed earthenware, pen on paper, resin

Drag cliff, 2016–2019, Glazed stoneware, pencil on paper

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Untitled (gay silence), 2018, Glazed stoneware

Still life on fire, 2017–2019, Glazed stoneware, pen on paper, resin

Statues (Macaquinho do chinês), 2019, Glazed earthenware

Unwanted attention, 2017–2019, Glazed stoneware, pencil on paper

,,,	, Wait, 2016–2018, Glazed stoneware, pen on paper

That extra extra feeling, 2017–2018, Earthenware, pen on paper

Wildlife, 2017–2018, Glazed stoneware, pen and coloured pencil on paper

2000 year old feelings, 2018–2019, Glazed stoneware, pen on paper

Natural habitat, 2017–2019, Glazed stoneware, pencil on paper

When left was right and right was wrong, 2019, Glazed stoneware, pen and pencil on paper

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**Pietro Librizzi and Elizabeth Rochester for the photos

**Mark Sequeira for editing

**Matthew Morishima for designing New in town

**Jordan Taylor (@Pagemasters.co) for designing the poster

**Tamsin Kavanagh for the exhibition floor plan

**Yuki Nishimura for everything else + beyond