Curated jointly by the Thorstein Foundation and Manuel Cirauqui, Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes is an exhibition in the sweeter side of sinister. The bits of sentiment behind deception, the loving touch of cruelty, the silent ease that comes with the night mix into an atmosphere of delicacy and wickedness.

Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes exploits the velvet under a blackened heart and the beautiful glow in blood. It is bare feet on cold pavement, the romanticism in revenge, calm in endless despair.

The works presented are not but ashes of a loving self-destruction, the uncertain steps before a dark, distinct decision is made. The beauty of decadence lies under every choice. The ideal is the unrealized, utopia is written on our clothes and manners. Traces of a refusal, of a thousand ones – they become a way of life. Like a moment of secret splendor before anything is done – and then nothing is done. Through the Lies of Your Dark Dark Eyes is a prelude, the title of a song that is yet to be written.

Featuring: Jared Buckhiester, France Fiction, Ben Grieme, Michael Hermann, Jessy Honrado, Esteban Rey, Santiago Reyes, Cedric Sartore, Susanna Vapnek.

Extra-muros: Performance by James J. Williams III . But Baby, There’s Nobody to Fight, will be featured at Unisex Salon at the Delancey on August 9th. Check http://envoy.typepad.com/ for details.

THROUGH THE LIES OF YOUR DARK DARK EYES 8 August – 1 September . Tue thru Sat 11-6