Clench

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(Solo exhibition, Lady Beck, Leeds, UK 2018)

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Through sculpture, photography and performance, the exhibition explores how limitations on bodies can induce habitual and automatic gestures. How do systems, structures, and other bodies affect our movements within space? How do cultural, institutional, and social issues manifest themselves in physical form? A live performance took place during the exhibition in which Emma Bäcklund and Hamish Macpherson collaborated to explore the forced co-movement that occurs when wearing a twin jumper, using methods of improvisation and restraint while discovering agency in the improvised moment. The sweater was displayed on clay tongue hooks when it wasn't employed in the performance.

Accompanying text with the same title was written by Rory Cook

Install photographs by: Sam Hutchinson  www.sam-hutchinson.com