The title of the exhibition Image on the Tongue has something in common with the phrase ‘tip-of-the-tongue’ a sensation that something is missing, though we can’t quite say what. Something is being urged, pulled, and held.
What is desire? Something physically, emotionally, a mass – desire. The London Based artist Ebun Sodipo departs from this gravitational pull of desire. Leaning into traditions from the black (trans)radical tradition and historical recuperation. We see two hands at work, the fingers bend, curl, splay, point, stretch and at times, enjoin.
You can feel it, perhaps even see it. The body gesture in the service of something we cannot see. However,
this some thing is meant to arrive, with Image on the Tongue there is an enquiry that voices the silence of loss without speaking over it. One might place words like, desire and anticipation in the same semantic scheme. To expand the scheme, ‘preface’ might be added.
this some thing is meant to arrive, with Image on the Tongue there is an enquiry that voices the silence of loss without speaking over it. One might place words like, desire and anticipation in the same semantic scheme. To expand the scheme, ‘preface’ might be added.
To preface the performance of making this exhibition, we staged an aesthetic structure. To preface Image on the Tongue, we had to find a language in which to accurately state the conditions. To preface the anthropological, there was the art historical, and before that the ancestral. To preface “I” there was “she”. To preface the woman, there was the word, “woman.”
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