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Hales is delighted to announce Autofriction, artist Sarah Faux's second solo exhibition with the gallery.
In a new group of large-scale canvases and 'cut-out' collages, Faux explores the delights and contradictions of living in a body. With energy and wit, this exhibition furthers Faux's painterly inquiries into the hidden lives of our senses and ourselves. The show's title, Autofriction, plays on 'autofiction,' a literary genre that pursues truth within the personal. The friction here also alludes to touch, self-pleasure, or to discord within one's sense of self.
Throughout the exhibition, Faux's vibrant colours and intertwining shapes slide and slip, pushing and pulling, as imagery comes in and out of focus. By letting go of narrative, Faux's motifs emerge unburdened - zippers, fingers and limbs moving through ambiguous spaces - touching, gripping and clasping. Joyfully dissociative, Faux's compositions feel just as likely to coalesce i…
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Hales is delighted to announce Autofriction, artist Sarah Faux's second solo exhibition with the gallery.
In a new group of large-scale canvases and 'cut-out' collages, Faux explores the delights and contradictions of living in a body. With energy and wit, this exhibition furthers Faux's painterly inquiries into the hidden lives of our senses and ourselves. The show's title, Autofriction, plays on 'autofiction,' a literary genre that pursues truth within the personal. The friction here also alludes to touch, self-pleasure, or to discord within one's sense of self.
Throughout the exhibition, Faux's vibrant colours and intertwining shapes slide and slip, pushing and pulling, as imagery comes in and out of focus. By letting go of narrative, Faux's motifs emerge unburdened - zippers, fingers and limbs moving through ambiguous spaces - touching, gripping and clasping. Joyfully dissociative, Faux's compositions feel just as likely to coalesce i…
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