Artists: Aline Bouvy, Emeline Depas, Maisie Cousins, Eloïse van der Heyden, Marie Jacotey, Alix Marie, Lindsey Mendick, Anastasia Pavlou, Anousha Payne
Exhibition title: VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~
Presented by: Alix Janta-Polczynski
Venue: Island, Brussels, Belgium
Date: September 2 – October 3, 2020
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Island, Brussels
Our bodies are vessels
of fluids
conduits of emotions
secreted
excreted
exchanged
these liquid substances and feelings, vehicles of transmission,
shape our intimate relationships,
create ties
Fear, pain, bonding, longing, melancholy, joy, aversion, desire,
Placenta, semen, menstruation fluid, black bile, saliva,
Urine, blood plasma, tears, milk, sweat
“Vessels” was initiated long before the Modern World saw its human interaction codes drastically altered. Sweating in clubs and kissing strangers would now appear like some sort of anticivic act. Feverish hands shaking one another, the panic of (coughing) flying droplets…
This exhibition intends to explore spaces of intimacy and feelings that derive from internal flow or exchange of these bodily fluids.
Anousha Payne, Emeline Depas, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Anousha Payne, « Squeezing, she entered, and stuttered into a rhythm », 2019. Water colour on stretched cotton 85 x 95 cm; Emeline Depas, « Flower, Kiss, Banana », 2020. Glazed ceramix, apoxy and clay 25 x 20 cm; Emeline Depas, « Up Down », 2020. Watercolor on paper, rope 16 x 12 cm
Emeline Depas, « Flower, Kiss, Banana », 2020. Glazed ceramix, apoxy and clay 25 x 20 cm; Emeline Depas, « Up Down », 2020. Watercolor on paper, rope 16 x 12 cm
Emeline Depas, « For whom it’s especially done », 2020. Glazed ceramic, glitter, accessorise 25 x 25 cm
Emeline Depas, « For whom it’s especially done », 2020. Glazed ceramic, glitter, accessorise 25 x 25 cm
Maisie Cousins, Alix Marie, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Maisie Cousins, Alix Marie, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Maisie Cousins, « Slug in Paris », 2020, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Pearl paper A4 (19.8 x 29.7 cm) 1/5 + 2APs; Maisie Cousins, « Sweet & Sour 1 », 2018, Archival Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Pear A1 (56,1 x 84,1 cm) 3/5 + 2 APs
Alix Marie, « Femme Fontaine », 2017, Concrete, plastic tubing, metal bowls, foutain pumps
Alix Marie, « Femme Fontaine / Left Foot flex / Right Foot Point », 2017, Concrete, plastic tubing, metal bowls, foutain pumps
Alix Marie, « Femme Fontaine / Buttocks », 2017, Concrete
Marie Jacotey, Lindsey Mendick, Emeline Depas, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Marie Jacotey, « Belly », 2020. Digital print on jersey, safety pins 39 x 62 cm
Marie Jacotey, Lindsey Mendick, Emeline Depas, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island
Marie Jacotey, Lindsey Mendick, Emeline Depas, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island
Lindsey Mendick, « Cinch », 2020. Glazed ceramic and chocker 1 x 11 x 10.5 cm
Emeline Depas, « Untitled », 2020. Watercolour on paper, fur, sole, cord 50 x 10 cm
Emeline Depas, Marie Jacotey, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island
Marie Jacotey, « Caillebotte – Swimming-pool – Crazy Frame », 2020. Dry pastel on Japanese paper 36.5 x 25.5 cm
Lindsey Mendick, Emeline Depas, Marie Jacotey, Aline Bouvy, Anastasia Pavlou, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Aline Bouvy, « Spleen de chambre », 2019. Pencil on paper 40 x 50 cm Framed
Aline Bouvy, Anastasia Pavlou, Anousha Payne, Heloise van der Heyden, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Aline Bouvy, Anastasia Pavlou, Anousha Payne, Heloise van der Heyden, VESSELS ~ on body fluids ~, exhibition view, Island 2020
Aline Bouvy, « Accumulation Primitive », 2019, Watercolour on biscuit porcelain, varnish, 1. 2 and 5 cents 32 x 32 x 22 cm
Anastasia Pavou, « Untitled », 2020. Acrylic paint on printed paper, pencil on paper, BW analogue hand print 70 x 100 cm
Anousha Payne, “On the walk home she transforms herself, her skin rippling off in the sun”, 2020, Glazed ceramic stoneware, sisal fibres and silk organza dyed with logwood, metal 45 x 42 cm; Eloise van der Heyden, “Untitled I”, 2016, Drawing on paper 21 x 29.7 cm; Eloise van der Heyden “Untitled II”, 2016. Drawing on paper 29.7 x 42 cm
Anousha Payne, “On the walk home she transforms herself, her skin rippling off in the sun”, 2020, Glazed ceramic stoneware, sisal fibres and silk organza dyed with logwood, metal 45 x 42 cm
Eloise van der Heyden, “Untitled I”, 2016. Drawing on paper 21 x 29.7 cm; Eloise van der Heyden “Untitled II”, 2016. Drawing on paper 29.7 x 42 cm