Using a pared-down visual language of colour, texture, and form, ‘Touching Pool’ captures performative encounters between bodies and the natural environment.
Scenes of the natural environment in Australia and Vanuatu are beguilingly interrupted with otherworldly, but recognisable forms, such as feet, nipples and a woman’s torso in the performative and photographic work of the collaborative duo. Often in ‘Touching Pool’, writes Kathleen Linn ‘screens or coverings abstract the body as a sculptural form, foregrounding the shape and acting to dissipate the sexualised projections frequently made onto naked female bodies.’
Honey Long & Prue Stent, Bask, 2019, archival pigment print, edition of 5, 58 x 87cm. Courtesy the artists and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
ARC ONE Gallery
21 August to 5 December 2020
Melbourne
