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_recess_, Blindside


5-15 March 2025
There was once a highly sensitive pigment spot lying supine on plateau, a face stargazing in vulnerable innocence. That world was a binary of light on/ off. Soon the eye became more wary: it retreated into a deeper cleft in the face. The essence of things is easy to find. Start an autopsy from the cave of your own ear. Leili Walker & Rachel Button's Recess embrace the chaotic, the fragmented, and the irreverent, reveling in the disorder of the internet age. Plucked from time, the cave-recess and the pixel are thrown together like odd bedfellows. The internet and the cave are timeless places, untouched and endless, magical and sinister, close to the veil of the sublime. Making work that references prehistoric futurism and futuristic prehistory, these artists, accepting that some things can never be under- stood, ‘react by asserting wild poetic logic, which belies reason.' (Killeen, 2023) Killeen, K. (2023), The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought, Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable. Stanford University Press.

All photos by Kalindy Williams

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Photos by Kalindy Williams