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Central Saint Martins, Archway | February 2022
Exhibition text and Manifesto used as promotional material.
Can electric eels produce lightning? cam girls is an assertive embrace of unfamiliar intimacies - a collective dance around the sing-song of tender truths. A dizzying rotation in confronting the facade of familiar places, you attempt to locate yourself in its repetitive whirl. And in each spin there is a longing for something familiar in the space you know best; to tumble through an obsessive search of a once-known intimacy [in the dark]. This fluid space tethers the revealing of illusion, in the defenceless wing of a passerby. So you pass by, and you pass, these psuedo-domestic spaces reserved for inspecting unrecognisable memories, dead, hung, entertained.
The passing speaks of cctv cameras, and how they Really see you, but also asks if a set of headlights is just two sunrises in a costume. It is an intimate unknown and a coming to terms of the fact that there is always something writhing, raw, and impossible to recognise behind each routine veneer.
This is an invitation to join the prying open of the closing of distance, to welcome the mechanical clicking away behind estranged pieces of laundry, to watch while being watched in this collective intimacy for the very first and last occasion.
This is an exclusive, sexy, and bewildering togetherness that one can only imagine a way out alone.
