The Smallest Gallery in Soho presents ‘Pure Filth’

The Smallest Gallery in Soho is delighted to present ‘Pure Filth’ a new installation by Norwegian based artist Annike Flo.

Visceral in its appearance, made mainly of second-hand silk in natural skin tones, the installation can be seen as an internal landscape of a human body. Even diffused warm white lighting supports soft silky material and natural tones, further emphasized by three orange glowing light tubes placed directly within the composition of the wrinkled creatures. The entire space is filled with orange-peach-pink light. Texture and form of selected features are highlighted by few carefully positioned directional spotlights.

‘My desires, and my borders are made of flesh. I am and they are material. Rot, fermentation, perspiration, leaks, rifts and ejaculations sensed through pores, tastebuds, touch and odour receptors. Sensed and metabolised again by the trillions of organisms and cells that make up my human body. I am a heaving site of consummation, decay and reproduction of myself and other beings. I share microorganisms with others, … Wearing the skins, cocoons and plumage of other beings, while being made up of many, where does my body end and the bodies of what I consider lover, kin, other, cloth or environment begin?’, says Annike.

‘Pure Filth is an exploration and attempted materialisation of the queerness and erotic possibilities of this monstrous condition that it is to be human.’

April – July 2023 at 62 Dean Street, London W1D 4QF.

https://www.thesmallestgalleryinsoho.com/
www.annikeflo.com & instagram.com/cocreateures

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