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Opening Friday September 4
5 Points First Friday, 6 to 9pm

Flat File Gallery presents Show OFF, photographs by Bill Yates and the late Loyd Sandgren. The exhibition pairs Sandgren’s images of Jacksonville, Florida wrestling events from the early 1960s with Yates’ images taken in 1972 and 1973 of the Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink located in rural Hillsborough County. The opening takes place on First Friday of 5 Points, 5 Points’ monthly block party featuring live music, art, dining, shopping, and entertainment in every direction.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Flat File Gallery will also present the film Pumping Iron (1977) in the 5 Points Theater at 9pm. Watch five-time Mr. Olympia champion, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his first film, defend his title by ruthlessly psyching out the shy, young, deaf Lou Ferrigno (of the 1977 TV series fame, “The Incredible Hulk”).

Both photographers documented graphic, physical performances where the actors paraded their bodies and physically confronted one another for an audience. Sandgren records the melodrama of the wrestling events. With wrestlers twisting each other’s limbs and choking one another with chains, the scenes are unapologetically theatrical. Though the roller skaters may not have thought of themselves on a stage, they are no less explicit and physical in their stagecraft. Young men aggressively wrap arms around their girlfriends’ necks and uncomfortably gesture for the camera. Part-scripted, part-documentary, Show OFF focuses on these various characters’ exaggerated exhibitionism, all of whom show off in particularly unsubtle and graphic ways. The physicality of the roller skaters’ sexual come-ons eerily resembles the wrestlers’ machismo inside the ring and Schwarzenegger’s virility on film. The uncensored performances by each group are the dominant element throughout Show OFF.

Flat File Gallery provides easy access to provocative, quality, and truly affordable works of art focusing on photography and works on paper by local and emerging Jacksonville artists.

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