SKIN ENVELOPE
2015
Solo exhibition at free range gallery
27 Nov – 5 Dec 2015
In body theory, ‘skin envelope’ refers to the post-eighteenth-century idea of the body’s margin as an enclosing vessel or garment, with specific openings. Before this the body was often envisioned as a kind of porous sponge, with no clear boundary between it and the world.
Probing these ideas, Skin Envelope was an expanded, performative drawing made up of many small elements: clay objects, embroidery, wall-drawing, tattoo.
Exhibition catalogue.
Catalogue text: Rituals, by Gemma Weston.
All photographs by Alessandro Bianchetti.
