Loafhead
(2025)
LoafHead centres on a speculative hybrid figure—part body, part bread—used to explore hesitation, escapism and denial. Bread becomes both material and metaphor: something that nourishes and grows, but also dries out, decays and disappears.
Through textile, sculpture and performance, the exhibition looks at how we respond to instability and crisis: how we adapt, avoid, endure or imagine our way out. At once vulnerable and absurd, LoafHead becomes a figure for both exhaustion and the possibility of change.
Location
Oddkin, East Providence, USA
Dates
2025
Materials
Mixed textiles (cotton and blended fabrics); yeasted dough coloured with beetroot and turmeric; acrylic resin and gouache; acrylic paint on fabric
TAKE TEN takes the pink walls of Las Palmas Project Space as both material and proposition. Closely resembling Baker-Miller Pink — a colour controversially associated with calming aggressive behaviour — the existing architecture becomes the starting point for an investigation into colour as a purported tool for regulating mood, behaviour and wellbeing.
The exhibition traces this promise through a series of materials associated with soothing, healing or relief, including calamine, Himalayan salt, bismuth subsalicylate and cochineal pigment. Their apparent benignity is repeatedly complicated: cochineal requires the mass harvesting of insects; excessive exposure or consumption produces adverse effects; and the therapeutic claims surrounding Baker-Miller Pink remain disputed. Through sculpture, painting, textile and a continuously running fountain, TAKE TEN constructs an environment in which reassurance gradually becomes suspect, using humour and contradiction to question the impulse to package discomfort into something manageable, attractive and calm.
