Exhibition work: ‘Echoes and Callings’, 6 collages, 40x50cm (3 B&W prints on Japanese paper, yellow acetate) on 50x60cm, 2018.

Solo exhibition: Echoes and Callings, White Conduit Projects, London, 24.06.-29.07.2018 (response by Yui Shikakura & Laura Sampson, 05.07.2018)

Description: 'In these images, we are meeting Hannya. And Namanari. And possibly Hashi-Hime. Masks of angry spirits that emerge from Japanese Noh drama and storytelling. She will be met in different figurations and materialities, but we will encounter her through her transformative states as woman who has become a demon – through pain or betrayal. Her images themselves now returning ghosts, apparitions and echoes, seeking both revenge and release. Re-embodied, contradictory and intertextual, we will be following her imaginary genealogy in word and image. Telling tales of silence and manifestation, pain and embodiment, stillness and fury – from abstraction to figuration. Body in pieces, mouth half-open, part shouting, part screaming; troubled and maltreated, while setting out to frighten. Conjuring up her liminal existence as she reveals herself as a terrifying image that is being upheld. In this way, she has existed throughout times and cultures. But today, more than ever, recognized as released and untamed, and finally, speaking out, loud.'

The images of screaming faces were first used for the live collage projection performance ‘Echoes and Callings’ at Kings Place in June 2018.
The collages re-stage the transformation process of 6 women into fierce demons through folding and layering photographs of reenacted expressions of Hannya masks to conjure up the expressive range of the mask through still images.
With protruding horns, clenched teeth and glowing eyes, the Hannya mask has a terrifying but also terrified appearance that reminds of the woman she once was, overflowing with both pain and fury after being betrayed, now looking for revenge.

The collages have first been shown at a solo exhibition at White Conduit Projects in London, and have since been exhibited in different contexts.