Every painted surface carries a hidden history on its reverse side. The back of a canvas, often dismissed as mere structural necessity, holds inscriptions,…
The profile in portraiture: Side and identity brings together two meanings usually kept apart: the profile as a side view, and the profile as a public account…
The mouth is rarely neutral. Even when it hangs slack in sleep, even when it has forgotten how to form a sentence, it carries the residue of every word it has…
For over two decades, Alexandra Mawimbi has built a body of work that turns the viewer's gaze back upon itself. Her practice moves between sculpture, video,…
Vision is often treated as a continuous faculty: the eye opens, the image arrives, and the viewer receives it. Performance disrupts that assumption. A blink…
Video can make time visible without turning it into a story with a clear beginning and end. A held image, a repeated gesture, a breath caught by the microphone…
Breath is one of the most immediate signs of life, yet it is rarely still. It expands, contracts, pauses, catches, and resumes. Its rhythm belongs to the body,…
A footprint pressed into wet clay is a modest event, yet it carries an unusual amount of information. It records weight, direction, pressure and hesitation in…
A hand can point, summon, refuse, bless, conceal, welcome, or tremble. Before a gesture becomes a recognised sign, it is already carrying information through…
A body in motion can carry an image, interrupt an image, or become the image itself. In live and ephemeral art, skin, breath, posture, gesture and fatigue are…