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…
An artwork is never completed by the artist alone. Materials, gestures, images, sounds and spaces may be carefully composed, yet meaning continues to shift…
Two paintings hang three metres apart on a pale plaster wall in a converted warehouse in Chippendale. A visitor walks into the room, pauses at the doorframe,…