'On Folding Ground'
Imagine existence as a fold. There is no clear linear beginning or end, no fixed boundaries, no strict separations between inside and outside, no static past or present. A Fold is continuous, relational, and serves to interconnect layers that influence and shape one another. When one part shifts, the rest will move. A series of ripples will reconfigure an entire structure: an unpredictable state of becoming.
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In ‘On Folding Ground’, Rebecca Halliwell Sutton and Lucy Neish explore how temporality, materiality, and transformation interact in a fluid and interconnected manner.
Both artists adopt an intuitive manipulation of material in a process of slow transformation. In these intimate actions—applying and removing paint, mark making with hammering, and triggering chemical reactions—they demonstrate how each act within their processes continuously influences and redefines the overall composition, resulting in a continuous and interdependent flow of cumulative material and time.
