Lyónn Wolf:
De-production
28 November 2025–25 January 2026 Opening Thursday 27 November 6–8pm Closed 20 December–7 January
Flat Time House and Askeaton Contemporary Arts are pleased to present the first UK solo exhibition of Lyónn Wolf, and a new commission initiated during an artist residency at FTHo in summer 2024. Wolf’s De-production creates an installation running through a succession of spaces in Flat Time House, dramatically transforming its interiors through sculptural and textual interventions. Playing upon the narrative and spatial tropes of popular Science Fiction, De-production has grown into an ongoing project for Wolf, tracing states of transition through what he describes as ‘an intentional re-patterning of reproductive logics’. Themes drawn from close readings of Ridley Scott’s Alien motion picture and subsequent sequels from 1979 to 1997 are a dominant aspect explored – monstrous motherhood, alienated embodiments and transitional states.
De-production begins with an undoing of the production and maintenance of gender within the nuclear family, and unfolds towards a trans and working-class poetics of time, labour and relationship. The artwork queries what it means to reproduce ourselves away from state apparatuses while also developing formats where this becomes a shared project. In this context, Wolf is developing and maintaining an archive, The Breeding Room, which will have its first presentation as an archive at FTHo. It acts as counter to traditional institutional intentions and structures, whilst also documenting and sharing elements of a practice of gathering.
Wolf works with the hybrid histories and functions of Flat Time House as a domestic and patriarchal site modified to accommodate artistic production, personal archiving and exchange of ideas. He pays particular attention to its legacy of John Latham’s blueprint, designating FTHo as a living sculpture, of anthropomorphised spaces named after different parts of a body. In De-production the area of the house Latham called The Body Event, becomes trans in its logics. Wolf uses Latham’s idea of a house as a manifestation of state changes to explore an interest in thresholds, the pleasures of alienation and relational self-making. Wolf’s ongoing experiments with zine and book creation as a vital form of counter-hegemonic knowledge production is a central element of the exhibition, offering a counterpoint to the repeated deployment of the book within Latham’s work. Moving through the spaces of FTHo Wolf offers spatial inflections that hold the body awash with colour, enclosed by temporal thresholds, drenched in sound and seduced by ephemera.
The Breeding Room at EVA International 2025 Photo: Oliwia Szafran
The Breeding Room (aka TBR) is a communal and auto-archiving practice intent on gestating queer, trans and crip social reproduction. Borrowing from the subversion at play in queer breeding kinks, TBR takes space for family abolition, de-colonial crip time, cross class contact and trans revenge. TBR accompanies the project De-production as a manifestation of the works intention to weave community away from the structural apparatus of the nuclear family and towards DIY organising, mutual aid, and cultural production by us and primarily for us.
Lyónn Wolf is an artist and writer currently engaged with de-productive trans & class poetics. His work unfolds a desire for structures of being away from the logics of reproductive colonial time towards the collective reimagining of political futures centred on pleasure & interdependence for queer, trans & crip social bodies. Through contra-institutional research practices across the development of long-term projects Wolf nurtures communities of interest alongside the making of promiscuous works that engage forms of recycling, thrift & ephemera, resulting in soft modularity, wild archiving & performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation & authorship.
Wolf has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer & working class counter propositional spatial politics, historical & speculative: The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public & Domestic Optimism. Exhibitions include Project Arts Centre, Dublin (IE), Grazer Kunstverein (AUT), Steirischer Herbst Festival (AUT), NCAD Gallery (IE), Dundee Contemporary Arts (SCT), nGbK Berlin (DE), Survival Kit Festival (LV) & De Appel (NL). Wolf is the author of Text in Public, Zine Performances and Rants published by Archive Books, Scriptings Berlin & EECLECTIC Publishing in 2022, and is currently a field:arts Independent Artist in conjunction with Iarlaith Ní Fheorais.
A limited-edition zine produced by Wolf as part of his summer 2024 residency at Flat Time House, De-production – First Trimester Mourning Sickness features contributions by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Linda Stupart, Raju Rage and Promona Sengupta. De-production is additionally supported by the Berlin Artistic Research Program, where Wolf was a fellow in 2022-23. The Breeding Room archive contains materials generated through artist-led community activities at Flat Time House in 2024 and EVA International, Limerick in 2025.
Askeaton Contemporary Arts is an artist-led organisation based in the west of Ireland since 2006. An ongoing residency programme creates critical cultural encounters in the midst of the Irish countryside each summer, while public programmes and exhibitions in Askeaton and elsewhere over two decades have found innovative public contexts and resilient relationships for new forms of artmaking to emerge.
This exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland