me, my flesh & I

Artists: Beck Baker, enjay binnie, Leilani Chia, Eye Fleur, Kanako Enokida, Megan Mushin Gardner, Chris Hagen, Ruby MacGregor, Yo Murray, Sachi Orrock, Braelyn Rolfe-Chase, Spot Willows, and Hamish Wilson

Curator: Sachi Orrock

Me, My Flesh, & I explores relationships to and between fleshy forms, pondering the many ways in which we encounter, experience, and consume meaty bodies. In this space, each artist chips away at the countless mythologies that cling to flesh, asking viewers to consider what it truly means to be made of meat.
Butchery and beauty, cuteness and cannibalism, pleasure and pain, desire and disgust - each duplicity is embedded in flesh-based beings. Before the hungry gaze of viewers, these duplicities are emphasised - lured into the spotlight through photography, performance, sound, textiles, sculpture, and more.
Across each unique practice represented here, flesh is replenished, demolished, devoured, and transformed, bearing lasting marks of countless histories and futures. Our skins are fragile, time-keeping costumes - existing both as a fortified barrier and our most vulnerable surface. Memories of lives to come and lives that have passed are carved into these surfaces. They change the shape of the outfit, morphing it constantly at an uneven, unpredictable pace.
As it regenerates and degenerates around its skeletal host, flesh is watched, poked, sniffed, licked, hunted, and digested. Our worlds revolve around it. We are preoccupied constantly with it - how it looks, how it feels, what it smells like, what it tastes like encounter these bodies with care; sip at their words slowly and deliberately, being sure to savour that taste.

November 2024 | Absurda Gallery above Echo & Bounce, Meanjin

Work shown:

crescent skin, 2024
clothing, textile, acrylic, irrigation, clay
see ‘crescent skin’ - for further details