Nectere, was a group show featuring work from Maria Joranko, Hannah Morgan, Ding Ruyi and Sabīne Šnē. This presentation was the culmination of a year-long residency at Acme’s Warton House studio building.
Nectere, a Latin verb meaning ‘to attach, bind, connect’, was a group show exploring points of intersection present in the artists’ practices. The works considered relationships and states of being within interconnected organic and non-organic systems.
MARIA’s practice eviscerates and reassembles the intersections of chronic illness, language, race and notions of transformation through pain. Her video and sculpture installation, YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE, featuring original sound by artist Samuel Barbier-Ficat, was influenced by the potential of constructing new bodies: digital, earthen, and weaponised through the lens of chronic illness, race, gender and sexuality. She explores combining sculptural and digital media forms that take cues from art history, anime, high femme mindset, weaponry, and deconstructed club beats.
