TERRA NEXUS: Human as Part of Ecology, Proposition Studios, London, 2021

A labyrinth of 17 interconnected artist worlds, questioning the role of The Human As Part of Ecology. Curated by Gabriella Sonabend.

Harvest Womb Installation:

The installation unfolds within a peach-toned, fleshy room, an environment that feels both intimate and otherworldly. At its centre stands a large cylindrical vessel, holding colourful, visceral forms that wrap and loop around one another, suspended in thick amber liquid. Encircling the central vessel, smaller luminous forms hang in space like cnidarians. The scene suggests a speculative Wunderkammer- something alien yet uncannily familiar. The encased bodily material reads as a dense, layered and networked landscape, hinting at a mirroring between inner and outer worlds, where the boundaries between the human and the non-human are blurred.

The primary material is sugar, a medium that inherently embodies tension. Pulled sugar exists somewhere between the organic and the synthetic, grown and harvested yet intensely refined and manipulated. Sugar carries complex and troubling histories shaped by systems of indentured labour and exploitation, whilst also holding associations with childhood, playfulness and seduction. The installation lets these qualities remain entangled.

Materials: Fair trade sugar, glucose, food dye, vegetable oil, acrylic cylinder, salt dough, recycled glass jars, wood, metal, wire, string, latex, carpet, TV with film footage and accompanying sound by Nettlemouth.