Artists

Candace Hill-Montgomery, Jasleen Kaur, Olu Ogunnaike, Kang Seung Lee, Tourmaline

Press release

Hollybush Gardens presents Reluctant Gravities, a group exhibition including Candace Hill-Montgomery, Jasleen Kaur, Olu Ogunnaike, Kang Seung Lee and Tourmaline. The exhibition is named after a title by the American poet and novelist Rosmarie Waldrop who addresses the behaviour of words on a page in a manner that invokes the stage. In looking to Waldrop, drawn to the possibilities of the gaps between words, consideration is given to contested, overlapping and invisible spaces; a place of generative possibility through a constant evolving set of relations.

Through the works on view, the artists bring together themes of connectivity and community, reflecting on social environments through storytelling, symbolism and gesture; a relational approach to community building and a shared sensibility for the tactility of commonplace materials, often discarded, or leftover. From familial archives and queer histories to poetry, wordplay and the natural world, the artists consider how to make form of these histories and materials.