PROXY BODIES AT HAMILTON MAS, BENT HILL : : FELIXSTOWE, UK : : 18-27 SEPTEMBER 2021

PROXY BODIES AT HAMILTON MAS .
PROXY BODIES is a collaborative exhibition initiated by Elly Clarke in culmination of her three-month CHASE DTP supported PhD placement at Hamilton MAS. Through the media of photography, performance, embroidery, drawing, music and sound, the show explores ideas and lived realities of having and keeping a body going in an uber-connected, politically & ecologically unstable world - among other drags, pressures and pleasures. All work in the exhibition makes use of different kinds of repetition.
Galina Shevchenko, Elly Clarke, Bryony Graham, Clareese Hill, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee.
Galina Shevchenko’s Prosthetics Series/Liquidity iterations muse with the ideas of labour, production, procreation, and mediation. Emerging as iPad drawings, the images evolve to become digital embroideries through custom-developed algorithms. Hanging in the windows, the embroideries are pinned to the ready-made matrix of commercially produced fabric and lace, channelling the processes of artificial cross-breeding. This work is inspired by Donna Haraway’s Cyborg manifesto and Shevchenko’s ongoing research into Renaissance Grotesques.