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DANIELLE ARNAUD

IN TOUCHMonday, July 20, 2020 to Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Sola Olulode, Alix Marie, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Patricia &Marie-France Martin, Mandy Franca, Paulette Phillips andCharlotte Edey

Curated by Tess Charnley

'I took a last swig from my beer, overcome with the sensationsof touch, of my fingers and palms smoothing along someuntouched body in some imagined and silent sun-filled room.' -David Wojnarowicz, 'Close to the Knives: A Memoir ofDisintegration'

The past few months have brought touch to the forefront ofour minds. The first sense to develop in infants, touch isintegral to the way we relate, both to our surroundings and toeach other. Skin-to-skin soothes us, as children and as adults.There is a signalling in touch - the momentary merging of ourselves with an other, reminding us of our place within theworld, of the collectivity of our existence. The pandemic hasforced us to move inwards, fearing touch. In a virus-ladenworld, the possibility of contamination lives any(every)where.Choosing to touch brings risk, an exchange of cells weightedwith responsibility. Many go months untouched, with thesimplest gesture longed for - a hand on y'ours, the brush of ashoulder. 'In Touch, the third exhibition in the gallery’s virtualspace, presents work of multiple processes: painting; drawing;batik; photography; video; lithography - tactility explored inthe works’ subjects and their conception.

Alix Marie’s photographs reveal the fleshiness of touch, herwork 'Wax Photograph 14' (2014) an exemplification of theporousness of our skin, the edge-less nature of existence.Similarly, in Paulette Phillips’ video work 'Trace Elements'(2013), we see the merging of words: ‘When two things touchtrace elements are exchanged’, a phrase that could not feelmore pertinent at the moment. The text, cast in ice thencaptured on film, made as a eulogy for celluloid film.

Hands, our vehicles of touch, appear particularly in MandyFranca’s photo lithographs and Charlotte Edey’s drawings andtapestry. In Franca’s photo lithographs 'Untitled' (2019) wesee hands, repeated; skin creased in a moment of gesture. InCharlotte Edey’s drawings 'Mine I' and 'Mine II' (2019) we see

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hands reaching, faces offered to an unknown receiver. Edey’stapestry 'Freshwater' (2018) depicts a hand pointing towards apool of water, the shape of which mimics another hand. Thework is a mirage of touch.

Patricia & Marie-France Martin’s video work 'Un et un àprésent ça fait deux avant ça ne faisait qu’un' (2000) presentsthe frenzy of touch, skin on skin imitated in hosiery pulled overlegs; the music bringing a swell of anxiety about what mightbecome of these limbs, intertwined. In Jane HayesGreenwood’s painting 'Virtual Reality' (2018) we see acoupling emerge; a woman painting a man before her in anenvisioning of intimacy. Sola Olulode’s painting 'Entwined'(2020) shows bodies entangled in a moment of pleasure, theirlonging for touch satiated.

'In Touch' is an investigation of touch, positioned in a spacethat opposes tactility. The show considers touch as an anchor,our rootlessness in its lack.

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PATRICIA & MARIE-FRANCE MARTIN

Un et un à présent ça fait deux avant ça ne faisait qu’un, 2000

video 4m 46s (NFS)

JANE HAYES GREENWOOD

The Awakening, 2018

160 x 180 cm (h x w)Oil on canvasGBP 7300

CHARLOTTE EDEY

Mine 1, 2019

28 x 21 cm (h x w)Original graphite pencil drawing on handmade long fibredcotton rag paper. Framed in handmade Italian stained ashwood box frame with museum glass and floating mount(framed)GBP 850

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CHARLOTTE EDEY

Mine II, 2019

28 x 21 cm (h x w)Original graphite pencil drawing on handmade long fibredcotton rag paper. Framed in handmade Italian stained ashwood box frame with museum glass and floating mount(framed)GBP 850

MANDY FRANCA

Untitled (landscape), 2019

46.7 x 68.3 cm (h x w)Photo Lithography on Bread and Butter paper Ed 7GBP 300

MANDY FRANCA

Untitled (portrait), 2019

68.3 x 46.7 cm (h x w)Photo Lithography on Bread and Butter paper Ed 7GBP 300

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ALIX MARIE

Wax Photography 14, 2014

84 x 59 cm (h x w)(printed 2019), c-type print mounted on dibondGBP 1750

SOLA OLULODE

Entwinted, 2020

152 x 122 cm (h x w)Ink, oil and wax on canvas (NFS)

SOLA OLULODE

Heaven Is The Arms That Hold You Long Before You Go, 2019

122 x 102 cm (h x w)Oil, wax, oil bar, charcoal, oil pastels, Pigment, ink on canvas(NFS)

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PAULETTE PHILLIPS

Trace Elements, 2013

Single-channel digital video, transferred from 16mm film,duration: 3 mins 02 secs. Technical assistance from JasperAkitt and Michael Buchanan.

CHARLOTTE EDEY

Freshwater, 2020

21 x 16 cm (h x w)Woven jacquard tapestry with hand embroidery (framed)GBP 1800

ALIX MARIE

Cell Memory, 2017

40 x 30 cm (h x w)(printed 2020), c-type printGBP 900

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ALIX MARIE

Mammography 2, 2017

30 x 20 cm (h x w)photograph printed on glass, 2017 (printed 2019) uniqueGBP 1500

ALIX MARIE

2 fists, 2017

35 x 30 cm (h x w)(printed 2020), c-type printGBP 900

JANE HAYES GREENWOOD

Virtual Reality, 2018

180 x 160 cm (h x w)Oil on canvas (POA)

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