'Inside Pieces'

by Jean-Marie Malan / Guy Simpson

Long Gallery - 09.03.23 - 20.04.23

Combined exhibition statement for Inside Pieces by Jean-Marié Malan and Guy Simpson

Inside Pieces brings together works by Jean-Marié Malan and Guy Simpson who are connected through the artists’ studios and community, Atlantic House. The exhibition focusses on fragmentation, both of domestic spaces and of the body. “Inside pieces” refer to those ubiquitous objects found in interior environments as well as exploring intimate views thereof, as if to approximate the insides of objects. In Simpson’s work, commonplace electrical devices such as light switches and plug sockets are scattered throughout the room, increasing our awareness of the actual electrical fixtures in the space, and transforming these into sculptural elements in the show. Malan’s figurative and bodily works split the body into parts and surreally bleed figures through one another, as if suspended together in a film of bodily fluid. Her wooden carvings offer impressions of limbs while works in rubber and latex are suggestive of body parts and organs. Their works intersect, perhaps, at the idea of touch. Simpson’s work conveys implied human interaction while Malan draws on imagery of family members and her own body, through photographs, reflections and imprints left by touch.

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'Inside Pieces'

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