Jim Hodges' 'It only takes a minute' exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery explores grief and memory

Jim Hodges presents 'It only takes a minute' at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London from 24 January to 1 March 2025. The exhibition features a white marble version of his 2023 public sculpture 'Craig's closet', originally installed in St. Vincent's Triangle in Greenwich Village, New York City. That black granite work memorialized his late partner, musician Craig Ducote, who died in 2016, using a 3D scan of Ducote's undisturbed wardrobe contents. The new marble iteration appears more abstract in the empty gallery, with objects rendered in milky monochrome stone. An audiowork titled 'Angel Angel' (2025) includes a spectral recording of Ducote's voice from his final months. Nearby, 'sighting wonder' (2025) presents a butterfly-shaped nightlight plugged into the wall. Another gallery contains 'awaiting, (a study of time)' (2025), featuring three stacked plastic tubs filled with candy bags in a vitrine. The painting 'Medium' (2024) depicts a Victorian mantelpiece with an amber-toned urn in Walter Sickert's gloomy, impastoed style. The final gallery houses 'double portrait: father and son' (2025), a dilapidated wooden garage rescued from the Louisiana bayou, containing broken bricks, a rusty BMX, and a bladeless hacksaw. The exhibition creates an atmosphere both creepy and sacral, exploring themes of resurrection and the holiness of ghosts through personal and found objects.