The artist Alex Israel—together with a hominoid collaborator—masterminds an out-of-this-world intervention in a house designed by Tadao Ando for two of L.A.’s most renowned art patrons.
A moment of repose.
Eli ponders whether to have Hirst’s Forgotten Love, 2008, as a snack.
Eli comes face to face with Damien Hirst’s Black Sheep, 2007.
Jeff Koons’s Popeye, 2009, helps Eli find his inner strength.
Looking past Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q, 1964, Eli zeroes in on something he knows and loves: a spinning wheel. This one is Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, 1964.
Koons’s Play-Doh, 1994–2014, reminds Eli of his carefree days as a baby.
He scampers down the steps past Andy Warhol’s Joseph Beuys, 1980.
Cradling Alex Israel’s Risky Business, 2014–2015, in a moment of contemplation.
Eli ponders his next move.