Almanac is delighted to present 5225 Figueroa Mountain Rd, a solo show by British artist Isaac Lythgoe. The works band together to celebrate the birth of the cool, and resist its growing up – growing up poor, growing up man¬aged, growing up in the art world. Captured behind the screen, the protagonists of this world have become prisoner to a forbidden desire for simultaneous blackness and whiteness. Impossible to consummate, their bodies are shielded by a transparent boundary of childhood ritual, an endless repetition of pillow talk and nursery rhymes. 

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