"Can't you hear my voices?"
Rupert, Vilnius LT
February 2017

Jenine Marsh and James Lewis

Artists James Lewis (UK) and Jenine Marsh (CA) will present new sculptural works made during their February residency at Rupert. These new forms appear as approximately similar to themselves, forming extensions between the tangled hierarchies of language and expression embodied within specific material surfaces.

“People” are silhouettes that are both imprecise and singularized, faint outlines of voices, patterns of comportment, sketches of affects, not the anonymous chatter of the “public domain.” But what is an affect, if not each time a sketch? A comportment, if not each time a pattern? A voice, if not each time a faint outline? What is a singularity, if not each time its “own” clearing, its “own” imminence, the imminence of a “propriety” or propriety itself as imminence, always touched upon, always lightly touched: revealing itself beside, always beside. (“Beside himself” [“à côté de ses pompes”], as the saying goes.)

Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural.

Her navel, insecured, 2017. Air dry clay, acrylic varnish, silver ink.
Her navel, deviated, 2017. Air dry clay, acrylic varnish, silver ink, silicone.
Her navel, relieved, 2017. Air dry clay, acrylic varnish, silver ink, silicone.
Her navel, spare, 2017. Air dry clay, acrylic varnish, silver ink, silicone.
Speak easy; listen hard; drank up, consumed, 2017. Slumped beer bottles.
coins and tokens, 2017. Open series of mixed-currency train-pressed coins and tokens.