Helena Sinclair’s work exists at the edge of a boundary – or playfully sits either side. Seeing it, take note of your first feeling or instinct. Is the platter bristling with hair soothing with its delicate beauty, or discomforting with a grossness that’s not quite gross? Does your reaction sit between the two, not at neutrality but an in-betweenness that depositions your body? Does its silly name undo you further?

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Exhibition Essay: Helena Sinclair’s Material becoming the body, the body becoming material

Exhibition essay: Material becoming the body, the body becoming material, Helena Sinclair, the Wandering Room (November 202`1) by Tahney Fosdike supported by Moreland City Council through the 2020 Flourish: Arts Recovery Grant Program.