WE PERFORM: I AM IN LOVE WITH MY BODY

Solo show, Bosse & Baum, London, 2017

A series of drawings made by the artist in her studio, commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre during her residency in 2016. Performed on a horizontal surface, Peake uses the floor as a medium of support and resistance for her body to act out an expression of falling into an immersive sensorial experience, backwards into the horizontal. The floor and the body become a site for falling in love with the sensation of movement through sensing skin, flesh, bone. Simultaneously drawing an outline of her body/movement. Peake wants to contemplate ones own body as a complete territory of pleasure to sink into. Through these movement drawings an ensemble of characters/bodies are collected and come to re-perform once hung on the wall, the vertical; falling backwards becomes falling into rising up the wall.

Read a conversation between Florence Peake & Matthew McLean on occasion of her exhibition WE perform: I am in love with my body at Bosse & Baum, June–September, 2017 here.