How do i bring you into my presence
Featuring B.A Adeyemo, Justine Hounam & Sam Shaw
20-29th March
Open Friday-Sunday 12-4PM
PV: Thursday 19th March 6-8PM
How Do I Bring You into My Presence brings together three sculptors whose practices explore traces of being—how memory, material, land and domestic space hold the imprint of lived experience. Across mixed media, fabric, film and found materials, the exhibition considers presence not as something fixed, but as something fragile, layered and continually reshaped.
B.A Adeyemo examines residues of human experience, mapping displacement, absence and the shifting terrain of identity. Through acts of deconstruction—stretching objects and ideas to their limits—Adeyemo reveals vulnerability embedded within material form, allowing memory to surface as something transient yet deeply felt.
Justine Hounam approaches sculpture as a kind of skin. Working with painted fabric stretched over furniture and found objects, she creates cast-like shells that retain the contours, cracks and histories of what once lay beneath. Removed and reformed, these surfaces become territories—psychological and domestic landscapes viewed from above. Accompanied by one-shot films, Hounam’s work reflects on the intimate negotiations of family life and the subtle politics of shared space.
Shaw turns to the land itself as both subject and collaborator. Rooted in the layered histories of place—from medieval traces to our Anthropocene present—their intuitive process responds to discarded materials and paint, weaving personal memory with collective inheritance. The resulting works evoke the fragile poetics of landscape, where human intervention and natural cycles are inseparable.
Together, these artists ask how we encounter one another through what remains—through skins, shells, fragments and fields of memory. How Do I Bring You Into My Presence invites viewers into a shared space of reflection, where inner and outer worlds meet, and where the act of looking becomes an act of gathering what lingers.
