Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Too Much (too little, too late)

Three identical metal stands hold three identical portrait oriented graphic posters with a red and yellow swirl and black text overlaid. The text reads 'neither! she is acting!'. In the backround a large cape is suspended from the roof and trails along the floor.
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street,Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
Three identical metal stands hold three identical portrait oriented graphic posters with a red and yellow swirl and black text overlaid. The text reads 'Is she laughing or crying?'.
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
a cape with a long train is suspended from the ceiling of a large room and draped across the floor. On the orange fabric a khaki fabric appliqué depicts two figures back to back, their long legs stretching down the train and ending in heeled shoes. In the background three metal frames hold identical poster images of a red and yellow swirl with black text overlaid.
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street,Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
detail of a large fabric cape in orange and kahki that is suspended from a high ceiling
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
A TV is mounted on a white wall with wood panelling and period features. The image on the screen shows a person with a bow and arrow, pulling the arrow back.
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
two iphones are mounted on two adjacent white walls. They sit inside burgundy PVC covers that are gathered at their edges around the phone screens
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
a figure with a painted red face in a red costume stands in blackness with their arms out and mouth in an 'o' shape. Their image is on an iphone mounted on a wall. The iphone is encased in a drawstring burgundy PVC cover
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021,
Installation view, Florence Street, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey
a painted red face in a red hoodie with the drawstring pulled tight looks out from an iphone mounted on the wall and on charge. the phone also has a drawstring hood around it.
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato, Too Much (too little, too late), 2021
Installation view, Florence Street, Glasgow International 2021
Image: Eoin Carey

11-27 June 2021

Too Much (too little, too late) was a group show that featured works by Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen and Nora Turato.

Originally conceived as a live platform activated by a series of performances to question the patriarchal representation of bodies, Too Much was reimagined in light of the pandemic, adopting the subtitle too little, too late from the acclaimed song by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams (1977).

Embracing the artists’ travel difficulties as an opportunity, the project unfolded their need for proximity through interventions in which the works become performative bodies unravelled in programmatic languages, physical disciplines, technological dematerialisation and gentle textile refigurations.

In addition, Too Much (too little, too late) included a public intervention by Nora Turato. There is no business happening in the business lounge (2019) was originally installed on the exterior of 5 Florence Street on the first day of lockdown in 2020 and remained in situ for GI 2021. The work was courtesy of the artist, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina/Brussels and Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich

Curated by Giulia Gregnanin, Understate Projects Ltd

Creative producer: Sarah L. Smith

Venue partner: Urban Office

Sponsors: Resonance Capital, Pro Helvetia, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Michael Murphy and Bal Kalirai

Supported by Glasgow International