Clench

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

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Through sculpture, photography and performance, Clench explores how restrictions placed upon bodies can produce habitual and automatic gestures. The exhibition considers how systems, structures, and other bodies shape our movements through space, and how cultural, institutional, and social forces become inscribed in physical experience.

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A live performance took place during the exhibition, in which Emma Bäcklund and Hamish Macpherson collaborated to explore the co-movement produced by wearing a twin jumper. Through improvisation and restraint, the performance examined minor gestures, negotiation, dependency, and how limitations can generate new forms of agency within a shared bodily condition. When not used in the performance, the sweater was displayed on clay tongue hooks alongside photographs and headrest sculptures.

Accompanying text with the same title was written by Rory Cook

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