Tess Denman-Cleaver: Return

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The collection of texts are written with a performative sensibility and relate to unseen photographs and film documentation belonging to the artist. They are each grounded in friendships between women. Alongside these texts are a series of hand printed silver gelatin photographs of a fragment of a broken pot, referring back to the object, place, materiality and time.   

The title of the exhibition Return comes from one of Denman-Cleaver’s texts that conveys a return to a birthplace. The texts are gifts, they return favours to particular women in her life, and they are returns to sites of memory. There is also a reference to a return key on a keyboard and the poetic structure on a page.