06/01/2026
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𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃, 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇!
curated by Andrew Hodgson
Goswell Road
22 rue de L’Échiquier 75010 Paris
door code 19B63
Reopens this week:
Thursday & Friday 12H - 16H
Saturday 14H - 18H
𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮!
George Melly, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯, 1967.
Lot 175: the John Lyle Archive. Letters received, drafts of letters sent, letters indeed sent that have somehow made their way back to their sender; article drafts, BBC radio transcripts, press clippings. Insurance forms for the transporting and exhibiting of borrowed artworks, published and unpublished manuscripts and drafts of artworks shown and unshown; 𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘚𝘍𝘖𝘙𝘔𝘈𝘤𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕 (1967–1979) and 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘥 (1970–?). Bank documents, documents of incorporation with the Inland Revenue for the association EXETER FESTIVAL OF MODERN ARTS LIMITED., letters to and from MPs; successful and unsuccessful applications for funding to Arts Council England. Invoices for morning coffee, paid speaker fees, ticket and event season pass sales and their refund, unpaid phone bills, and orders for vernissage finger food—including such delicacies as sardine-stuffed boiled eggs.
It is an archive that carries its decades heavily, from its stranding in a barn in the South West of England, and then, since 2016, chopped into small lots and sold, or unsold and kept in the storage locker of 𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.𝘤𝘰.𝘶𝘬. Delivered to Paris in a small piece of baby blue luggage in January 2025, spread across the walls of Goswell Road is an unsold section of the archive, Lot 175. Curated here for your ophthalmic consumption, it is Lot 175 that you will shortly find yourself engulfed in.
𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩.
J. N. Watts, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 visitor book, 1967.
The exhibition documents a small section of the archival ephemera of British bookseller John Lyle (1932–2002).
Images: Installation views.
