Somehow You and I Collide was curated by Marc Hulson at The Laundry, London Fields (2017), a post-industrial space that framed work concerned with the conditions of making in the present moment.

Total Auribus Teneo Lupum reduces the form of a basketball to its bare geometry, its curved seams translated into a suspended mild steel framework, the surface and function of the object stripped away entirely. What remains is the armature: the hidden structure that held the thing together, now legible as subject in its own right. The Latin title, which means I hold the wolf by the ears, names the position the work inhabits: caught between holding on and letting go, between revealing a structure and being implicated in it. The sculpture marked a turn in the practice toward the underlying systems that shape experience, making those architectures visible by removing everything placed on top of them.

Vegan Between Meals operates in a register entirely different. An animal skin hangs motionless – drying, spent, suspended. Beside it, a PVC foot pump stands ready to reinflate. Industry, the work suggests, has a solution for everything, including life. The tray beneath waits to capture whatever productivity the restored body might yield. The piece moves through deadpan irony toward something more unsettling: the body as unit of output, collapse as a problem to be solved rather than a condition to be acknowledged, resuscitation in the service of resumed function.

Together, the two works describe a practice at a particular moment of formation – one pulling toward structural revelation, the other toward the absurdity of the systems that surround it. Both locate their subject not in the object itself but in what the object makes visible by its presence.