Lesser palace
Sofiyah Ruqayah
Gallery 3
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‘Lesser palace’ is the name of the pressure point located between index finger and thumb. In acupressure, this zone is known to store anxieties pertaining to the heart. Taking this site of emotional geography as a point of departure, this exhibition explores ideas of ‘oceanic feeling’, and imagines ways of being in the world that rely less on notions of discrete selfhood, and more on porosity, kinship, and affective encounter.
In Lesser palace, the ocean is treated as a site of both lethal and vital encounter. Seen and unseen encounters between oceanic bodies and zones are staged through processes of assemblage, soft sculpture and video, and draw reference from a broad range of sources, including familial and cultural myths, bathymetric expedition footage, dream archives, communist theory and science fiction.
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