Wet things dry, dry things get wet, 2019, Stained glass 700 x 550 mm. Photo: Rob Harris
Wet things dry, dry things get wet, 2019, Stained glass 700 x 550 mm. Photo: Rob Harris
Hard things soften, soft things get hard, 2019, Steel, Dimensions variable. Photo: Rob Harris
Hard things soften, soft things get hard, 2019, Steel, Dimensions variable. Photo: Rob Harris
Hard things soften, soft things get hard, 2019, Steel, Dimensions variable. Photo: Rob Harris
Hard things soften, soft things get hard, 2019, Steel, Dimensions variable. Photo: Rob Harris
Tender rip, 2019, install view. Photo: Manuela Barczewski
Tender rip, 2019, install view. Photo: Manuela Barczewski
Tender rip, 2019. Photo: Manuela Barczewski
Tender rip
14 April — 16 June 2019
Auto Italia, London
View exhibition text See-Through by Ainslie Templeton & Vincent Silk
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This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. The development period of the work created for this project received support from the NSW Government body through Create NSW and The Ian Potter Cultural Trust. The development of this exhibition was supported by The Keir Foundation and Firstdraft.
Tender rip is a collaborative project developed by Sid McMahon and Spence Messih which explores transformations of bodies by and with language, and the slippery processes of coding and classifying both. Asking what it means to wilfully occupy the site around inclusion and exclusion—ideas of absorption and proliferation, opacity and readability are surfaced. Taking the form of a site-specific installation, McMahon and Messih’s new bodies of sculpture additionally function as tools for containing readings from others, with works and words from Jos Charles, Brian Fuata, Real Madrid, Vincent Silk and Ainslie Templeton.