PROJECT:
Installation
ART COLLECTIVE:
The Furies
GALLERY:
The Bomb Factory Foundation
ROLE:
Artist, set designer & producer
Cellulite Installation
Overview.
The Furies Collective presented a large-scale installation, 'Cellulite', at the Bomb Factory Foundation's exhibition, 'Collectivism', at their Marylebone gallery during May-June 2026. The show, the first of its kind in London, looked at the emergency of the collective during cultural crisis and was presented as part of London Gallery Weekend.
Role: Artist, producer & set designer.
The Furies: Amanda Cornish. ATHENA Mothership. Elinor Henry. Hannah Dowling. Lujane Vaqar Pagganwala. Maria Helena Toscano. Margot Wilson. Sara Emil. Suni Mullen
Exhibition featured in the following platforms and publications: Lisson Gallery | United Cultures | USA Art News | Frieze | The Art Newspaper | Art Review
Image credits: James Merrell. Justin Piperger. Athena Mothership in performance amongst the installation.
Concept.
Echoing the statement that “neither our bodies nor the land are territories of conquest”, the work confronts how patriarchal systems have occupied, formatted, and extracted from the female body - particularly through regimes of beauty, productivity, and visibility.
Working with textiles as bodies, the group use cosmetics against their intended use - leaving works that drip, seep and accumulate - cyclical like nature, and resisting the strict linear grid of time. Here, ageing is re-positioned as a power, instead of western society's invisibility and irrelevance.
'Cellulite' was created as sensory experience and psychological journey, which I visualised in Sketch Up.
From uncertain curiosity at the entrance to a sense of mystery, intrigue and investigation whilst moving through whilst exploring the materiality, to the beckoning of the suspended egg at the journey's end. Here, within the egg, hologram-like video illusions of the artist bodies are hidden, only viewable through a small eye hole. This end point is a place to meet, ground and reflect.
Speaking to the concept of resisting patriarchal structures, the installation was devised as bodily organic in tension with a strict invisible grid. Each suspended fragment was mapped to a point on a 80x80cm square grid.
