Programme Note:

Languid Bodies (2021-22) - Mixed media installation

'Languid Bodies' explores the intersections between fitness, labour and craft through a feminist lens. Using gym equipment as sculptural motifs, I have created a family of weights – they loll, exhale, and curl up, acting as individual characters. 

I am a builder of bodies

To activate my cast sculptures, I collaborated with performer Théïa Maldoom. Using physical comedy, deadpan humour and static poses as points of reference and return, a semi-improvised (durational) routine is enacted. Liveliness and inactivity segue into one another; both are spattered with moments of slapstick and tenderness.

Photographs by Gabriel Mansfield