‘Growing Pains’
1st August 2024
Filet, London
1st August 2024
Filet, London
Growing Pains is a collaboration between Lotte Frances and Em Finucane. The exhibition transcends location, comprising works produced in Melbourne, London, and Barcelona. Lotte and Em examine how queer and diasporic people build home within the body, to ask if the ‘home’ is a portable concept.
Lottes’ anthropomorphic paintings and sculptures explore how their body transforms in unfamiliar spaces. Their work dissects the relation between space and body to consider how painting and sculpture can clarify the precarity of bodies in modern society. Lotte’s process is intuitive and emergent, evolving between their home, Melbourne, and their residency at La Place Artspace, Barcelona.
Em illustrations pairs with a practice of casting and distorting found textures. They use latex as a conduit for something distorted, something fleshy, something familiar yet uncanny. In congruence with Lotte’s articulation of the body-in-space, Em interrogates how the external world imprints on the internal self.
Growing Pains is a dialogue between the artists, which invites the viewer to confront the complexities of identity in transnational contexts. It weaves narratives of exploration, resilience, and belonging, to articulate a world marked by fluidity and transformation.
Lottes’ anthropomorphic paintings and sculptures explore how their body transforms in unfamiliar spaces. Their work dissects the relation between space and body to consider how painting and sculpture can clarify the precarity of bodies in modern society. Lotte’s process is intuitive and emergent, evolving between their home, Melbourne, and their residency at La Place Artspace, Barcelona.
Em illustrations pairs with a practice of casting and distorting found textures. They use latex as a conduit for something distorted, something fleshy, something familiar yet uncanny. In congruence with Lotte’s articulation of the body-in-space, Em interrogates how the external world imprints on the internal self.
Growing Pains is a dialogue between the artists, which invites the viewer to confront the complexities of identity in transnational contexts. It weaves narratives of exploration, resilience, and belonging, to articulate a world marked by fluidity and transformation.
