Installation view at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

My Guts Got Tangled in Your Net approaches painting as a porous and dependent body. Two painted lengths of fabric are suspended from ceramic protrusions at chest and torso height, falling without the discipline of a stretcher or frame. Gravity, rather than being resisted, becomes part of the work’s structure.

The ceramic forms hover between handle, joint, bone, and coral. They hold the fabric while also interrupting it, exposing support as something tactile, bodily, and unstable. As pigment extends from canvas onto wall, the work refuses the idea of painting as a contained surface, instead becoming a site of attachment, seepage, and exchange.

Dates: August 2024

Photography: Rita Taylor