You're Getting Closer
fabric, steel, concrete, lime wood, jesmonite, chrome plated shower curtain rings, chrome plated house number
Installed in Approximate Distance, Group Exhibition at hARTslane, 2023
fabric, steel, concrete, lime wood, jesmonite, chrome plated shower curtain rings, chrome plated house number
Installed in Approximate Distance, Group Exhibition at hARTslane, 2023
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Left: You're Getting Closer
Middle: Now that you're here
Right: Waiting for eight
Installed at Approximate Distance, Group Exhibition at hARTslane, 2023
Middle: Now that you're here
Right: Waiting for eight
Installed at Approximate Distance, Group Exhibition at hARTslane, 2023
Detail: Now that you're here
door mat, newspaper puzzle, resin, curtain ring, coat hook, newspaper
door mat, newspaper puzzle, resin, curtain ring, coat hook, newspaper
Waiting for eight
newspaper, home chain security lock, digitally printed organza
newspaper, home chain security lock, digitally printed organza
It stays here
screen printed fabric
screen printed fabric
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Left: Two II
packaging, chewing gum
Right: Two III
newspaper
packaging, chewing gum
Right: Two III
newspaper
Approximate Distance, hARTslane, 2-7 May 2023
Approximate Distance presents new work by Tam Man Ching Michelle, Emilia Gonzalez, Michelle Lee Johnson, and Ellie Pearch.
This exhibition deals with the permeability of boundaries and of the body, contrasting the intimacy of private moments with the constraints of the real and imagined infrastructure of city and nation states.
Breath crosses all types of thresholds. While much of the work focuses on movement, containment is a prominent theme explored in the exhibition. Surveillance, city transport networks, and algal blooms become vehicles for transportation, each carrying different associations of tyranny, efficiency, intimacy or invasion. The body is itself a vessel for breath and memory which are held within or spilled beyond the boundary of the skin. In this spillage lies the excitement of connection alongside the fear of infection.
The exhibition is curated to examine the relationships between belonging and alienation, touch and restraint, containment and spillage, intimacy and absence, tenderness and discomfort, sentiment and infrastructure.
Each artist deals with these themes from their particular local context and from their experiences of navigating within or resisting the female body. Pausing, making eye contact, being close to, being watched: quiet acts, sometimes tender, sometimes systemically oppressive are evoked and induced by the work. Residues of place and memory are preserved in sculpture and video, or teasingly released through sensory installation.
Approximate Distance presents new work by Tam Man Ching Michelle, Emilia Gonzalez, Michelle Lee Johnson, and Ellie Pearch.
This exhibition deals with the permeability of boundaries and of the body, contrasting the intimacy of private moments with the constraints of the real and imagined infrastructure of city and nation states.
Breath crosses all types of thresholds. While much of the work focuses on movement, containment is a prominent theme explored in the exhibition. Surveillance, city transport networks, and algal blooms become vehicles for transportation, each carrying different associations of tyranny, efficiency, intimacy or invasion. The body is itself a vessel for breath and memory which are held within or spilled beyond the boundary of the skin. In this spillage lies the excitement of connection alongside the fear of infection.
The exhibition is curated to examine the relationships between belonging and alienation, touch and restraint, containment and spillage, intimacy and absence, tenderness and discomfort, sentiment and infrastructure.
Each artist deals with these themes from their particular local context and from their experiences of navigating within or resisting the female body. Pausing, making eye contact, being close to, being watched: quiet acts, sometimes tender, sometimes systemically oppressive are evoked and induced by the work. Residues of place and memory are preserved in sculpture and video, or teasingly released through sensory installation.