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Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present though poppies grow, Patricia Ayres's first solo exhibition in Belgium. Ayres's works explore how systems of societal constraint – such as the church and the carceral state – inscribe themselves on the body. Drawing from a background in fashion design, she uses elastic textiles to create corporeal forms that speak to notions of injury, restraint, and control.
The exhibition takes its title from the war poem "In Flanders Fields," written by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae inside the back of an ambulance in 1915. McCrae had noticed how poppies sprang up around soldiers' graves, as if their vivid petals had drawn color from the blood-soaked soil. These flowers flourish in disturbed ground, where sunlight finds its way through the cracks. As the war dragged on, the battlefields bloomed a vibrant, deep red.
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Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present though poppies grow, Patricia Ayres's first solo exhibition in Belgium. Ayres's works explore how systems of societal constraint – such as the church and the carceral state – inscribe themselves on the body. Drawing from a background in fashion design, she uses elastic textiles to create corporeal forms that speak to notions of injury, restraint, and control.
The exhibition takes its title from the war poem "In Flanders Fields," written by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae inside the back of an ambulance in 1915. McCrae had noticed how poppies sprang up around soldiers' graves, as if their vivid petals had drawn color from the blood-soaked soil. These flowers flourish in disturbed ground, where sunlight finds its way through the cracks. As the war dragged on, the battlefields bloomed a vibrant, deep red.
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