Exhibition Review - Helene Appel,Stuart Cumberland, Jack Lavender, Hannah Lees, Charles Mayton, Puppies Puppies, Oliver Sutherland, Hayley Tompkins and Holly White:'Is this living?' The Approach, London till 7th Feb 2016.

At The Approach, I encountered each work "as an unexpected object, a Pandora's box...produced and consumed with a peculiar curiosity, a kind of sacred relish." - Drenched Co.

( Excerpt from Roland Barthes' 'Writing Degree Zero)

Comment: "I entered this exhibition to a site of an explosion, emanating from Lavender's spent campfire, from which scattered the poetic potentialities of the word 'consumption'. And how fresh and messy a take! Is life worth living when colonised by ideas of production and consumption? Perhaps the exhibition also explores an oblique view on how food comes to rescue us from the demands of efficiency and profit. The activities of producing and consuming food shape us, our relationships and places care before commerce. See, for instance, champagne celebrations, communal campsites, social texture of kitchens etc. Or am I reaching?" - FaSa

See theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/is-this-living/press-release/

See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-helene-a...

See also www.soaked.space/2016/01/exhibition-review-helene-appelst...

Caption: Image above: Installation view Is this living? The Approach, London 2016 Photo: FXP Photography

Image courtesy of the artists and The Approach, London. Curated by Jack Lavender and Hannah Lees

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

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Exhibition Review - Group show:'The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere', The Approach, London till 14th May 2017.

“What exactly is it that needs shoring?"- Drenched Co.

Notes: "My meanderings begin from and through the work of the only male artist in this group show. I am perched on a tide of bodily waters, sloshing, swirling, frothing, back and forth, in and out in rhythmic displacements of bodies, knocking back, unclogging channels, clearing paths. This beat presses the body into potential, into colonised spaces, into the conflict between life as limited and life as continuity. I am witness to an impending tsunami of release and expression, heading a charge against an eon of assimilating the impact on the body made by a white male universe. Shored by the limits of the skin, a rhythm rises against the epidermal understanding of personhood, against the dynamics of visibility and occlusion and against designed movements of a conquered body set in time and space. The skin, frontier of the new resistance, in a battle of blows against tyranny is chrysalides to colonised ghostly bodies and it is warping space into impossible bodies everywhere. What again is it that needs shoring?!" - FaSa

See theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/the-problem-with-having-a-b...

See also www.soaked.space/2017/05/exhibition-review-group-showthe-...

See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/05/exhibition-review-group-sh...

Caption: The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere, Installation view at The Approach, 2017.

Credits: Image courtesy of the artists and The Approach, London. Photo: FXP photography.

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

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Exhibition Review - Lisa Oppenheim: 'Analytic Engine' The Approach, London till 15th May 2016.

Light accumulates until it finally is. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Ms Oppenheim's alchemical wanderings take me on a journey through and beyond Barthes' grand project in Camera Lucida. In her photographs, light filtering through thin slivers of a dead tree seem to cleave an image from the wood itself. And to me these photographs are like the "made-up face beneath which we see the dead", as they beautify and momentarily neutralise the forest spirits that press upon our contemporary angst so. I liked her weave best." - JayZee

See theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/analytic-engine/images/

See also www.soaked.space/2016/04/exhibition-review-lisa-oppenheim...

See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-lisa-opp...

Caption: Image above: Installation view Lisa Oppenheim© The Approach, London 2016

Image courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London.

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

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