A solo show featuring a fleshnet of stockings knotted and stretched over the Contemplation Gallery. Using traditional netting knots, the freshnet grew out of a collection of stockings. For its installation, A Catch was slowly released over its 3 month showing into the ceiling space. Partly inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, where the landscapes represented in her monolith forms were brought together with tension lines that find and hold the space in between. A Catch exists somewhere between the pull of the emptiness of the building and where a body could be.
‘Nets are flexible, functional, efficient and broad-sweeping. They trawl through a body of water and envelop their prey. There is both strength and flexibility to them. You can be held or caught in one. Of course, a net made out of stockings remains flexible but its function and use is questionable. An echo of a body remains. A trapping of an object only a possibility.
A Catch - In Conversation with Katie Pascoe and Sarah McClintock, Catalogue, 2018
Photography | Ishna Jacobs
Model | Sam Loe