Exhibition

Proximity

26 Jul 2023 – 12 Aug 2023

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Wednesday
12:00 – 18:00
Thursday
12:00 – 18:00
Friday
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday
12:00 – 18:00

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Fold is pleased to present, Proximity, a two-person exhibition that brings together the work of artists Annie Trevorah and Liberty Quinn to explore the transformative effects of closeness, both physical and metaphorical.

The term proximity thereby serves as an expansive framework for a long list of terms and actions that not only describes a physical nearness, but a greater temporal proximity and the potential for encounters for future intimacies.

While Trevorah and Quinn use distinct aesthetics and materials, creating both unity and dissonance, their practices share a mutual fascination with proximising the Anthropocene.

Quinn’s work utilises the codes of photography and film to explore how close-ups, and changes in scale, can reveal the too often ‘invisible’ violence of environmental collapse. Within ‘Floe’, 2023 she mobilises the zoom-in feature on Google Earth to locate herself within the ungraspable expanse of Antarctica, only to find the imagery has fractured and disrupted by the piecing together of information. In proximising this digital distortion through producing large C-type and UV print on steel, Quinn engages with the planetary time scales of slow environmental violence. In the artist’s own words ‘It is almost as if when a technological glitch occurs, an ice sheet melts.’

Trevorah’s work reflects on the socio-dynamic interplay between humans and non-humans in order to explore ideas of interdependence, connectivity, entanglement and mutation. Often referencing sexuality and reproduction, she works across sculpture, textiles, photography and moving image to interrogate assumptions about human superiority above the environment to reflect on our hubris in thinking that we are better than and somehow entitled to exploit the animal and vegetable world around us. In this exhibition, we see ‘Inhumana’ 2023 a large vessel- like creature that surveys, transports and devours, while ‘Predator 2’ 2023 whose barbed sexual organs, blatantly challenges the Proximity Principle which accounts for the tendency for individuals to form interpersonal relations with those who are close by.

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