FACTUAL ACTUAL
Held in various private and institutional collections.
Exhibited at Vortic, PM/AM, La Becque, Richard Saltoun Gallery and Geneva Art Fair.
The works in Factual Actual are created with Peake drawing around her moving body on horizontal paper, capturing the contrast of the imagined body with its objective form.
During this process, Peake is induced in the bodily sensations of having multiple limbs, many breasts, eyes on the back of her head and multiple genders layering over each other. The artist starts with lying on the paper and marking around her body, taking the gesture of the body down verbatim and then moves into marking the surface to recall the sensations that emerge from her body.
This technique was first used in a series of works exhibited in the artist’s solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum in 2017. These new works were made in residency at La Becque, Switzerland during the summer of 2020, a period of Covid-19 induced lockdowns.
The artist developed a repertoire of movements around grieving processes, which were acted out during the making process so that Peake’s painted figures both embody and bear witness to gestures of grief. Factual Actual as a series responds to heartbreak, the great senses of loss and loneliness experienced during the pandemic, and the bodily sensations of troubled times.
Factual Actual was presented on Vortic, the world's leading virtual and augmented reality platform for digital exhibitions and artworks.
