On Friday, August 11th, 2023, Lauren Powell Projects proudly presented Make Me Glow for an Hour, a confectionary response to the gallery’s latest exhbition, Semblance, by artist Ari Salka.

The title, drawing from Giovannai Rosa’s untitled sugar poem, highlights the ecstatic and exhaustive dynamism present in Salka’s paintings and poetry, as well as in the medium of sugar itself. Like Salka, Make Me Glow for an Hour frames time as both precious and ongoing, portraying past, present, and future as collaborative and co-implicating through confectionary arrangements that transform, melt, drip, smear, crumble, metabolize, energize, and wear, through the experience of collective obliteration and consumption. In this work, Lovening Agent turns to Semblance’s passionate portrayal of abstraction, repetition, and fragmentation in her own construction, refracting Salka’s approach to mark-making in sugar likeness.