Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh

A powerful and unexpected dialogue is created with a number of vernacular devotional objects drawn from archaeological and liturgical collections in Italy, invoking an ambivalent threshold in Tabouret’s practice, a portal into multiple temporalities and subjectivities through which to consider alternative relationships amongst human beings, and between human beings and their environment, in the face of ecological and social crises and in communication with the supernatural.

Through a display of 25 works by Tabouret including paintings, sculpture, video and works on paper, the earliest from 2008 but drawn mostly from the last decade of the artist’s multifaceted practice – the exhibition articulates various structures and fluidities existing within subjectivity and constructed identities and uses an enigmatic language of ritual and repetition, incarnation and transfiguration.