A performative conversation between the artists/writers Koen Sels and David Price. Sels and Price send each other Whatsapp messages all the time, usually sending each other images of their drawings. Sels has been producing daily drawings on index cards, and Price has been drawing fictional artworks. In the context of Agata Cieślak’s exhibition they will show many of these drawings, and talk about an alphabetic series of ideas (from A-Ø) drawn from their conversation, in response to Agata’s work.
Over the last decade or so David and Koen sometimes collaborate formally (on writings for David’s solo exhibitions, for example), but write to each other constantly. They also send each other drawings, almost every day. This presentation formalises some aspects of their informal discourse, responding to Agata Cieślak’s exhibition with an exchange of ideas about work, family, friendship, correspondence, collaboration, art and literature.
David Price (1982) lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an artist and writer, and very occasionally exhibits and publishes. He has recently completed a long-term online writing project, The History of Writing. He also works as an editor, proofreader and translator for art books. Since May 2024 he has been sketching out fictional artworks on bits of scrap paper.
Koen Sels (1982) lives in Antwerp, Belgium. He has published two novels, Generator (2015) and Gloria (2019). He works as a secretary at the probation office and occasionally writes on art and literature. He´s working, very fragmentarily, on a book on Belgian days. Since May 2024 he has been making schemas and drawings on index cards.