Massage Therapy
03/03/17 - 25/03/17 at Kings Artist-Run
Clare Longley, Gian Manik, Honey Long, India Salvor Menuez, Isabella Connelley, Jerome Jabari, Loralee Newitt, Prue Stent and Ro Noonan
Curated by Clare Longley
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view. Left: Prue Stent and Honey Long, Scallop, 2016, framed archival pigment print, 159 x 106cm. Right: Loralee Newitt, selected poems, My Little Peach, Together, Our Leaps and Our Landings, Faint, Languid but Warm, If Love Could, 2017, paper and crystal on wooden shelf, dimensions variable
Installation view. Left: Gian Manik, Untitled #3, 2016, oil on canvas, 197 x 73cm. Right: Clare Longley, The eiffel tower at sunset from your living room, 2017, digital print on silk, tin, pine, clay, dimensions variable
Detail: Clare Longley, The eiffel tower at sunset from your living room, 2017, digital print on silk, tin, pine, clay, dimensions variable
Clare Longley, The eiffel tower at sunset from your living room, 2017, digital print on silk, tin, pine, clay, dimensions variable
Honey Long, Blown Body 5, 2016, blown glass and quartz, 20 x 25cm, and Blown Body 3, 2016, blown glass, 17 x 7cm
Ro Noonan, Slim Chance, 2017, mixed media, dimensions variable
Detail: Ro Noonan, Slim Chance, 2017, mixed media, dimensions variable
Detail: India Salvor Menuez, Untitled, 2017, mixed media collage, dimensions variable
Detail: India Salvor Menuez, Untitled, 2017, toothbrushes, elestic band
Jerome Jabari and Clare Longley, Afferent Detergent, 2017, mixed media and sound installation in the bathroom of Kings Artist-Run, dimensions variable
Detail: Jerome Jabari and Clare Longley, Afferent Detergent, 2017, mixed media and sound installation the bathroom of Kings Artist-Run, dimensions variable
Detail - Jerome Jabari and Clare Longley, Afferent Detergent, 2017, mixed media and sound installation the bathroom of Kings Artist-Run, dimensions variable
Image Credit Aaron Christopher Rees
Massage involves working and acting on the body with pressure. The presence of a human body on a massage table, as a constructed situation forces us to experience somewhat objective relaxation, and we lean into it, cherishing the stock image frangipani wallpaper and overwhelming aroma that veils the body odour of strangers. Massage Therapy surveys this notion in a corporeal and theatrical sense, as a conduit for contemplating how spaces or interactions can be fabricated to invite a sense of not-necessarily-genuine intimacy. How far can the giver go in helping the receiver get there, and under what circumstances are we prepared to be seduced?