Opening alongside Frieze Week 2022, Nevine Mahmoud’s new show at Soft Opening, London, is a nuanced exploration of eroticism, mythology and cultural assumptions of femininity
, Nevine Mahmoud’s new show at Soft Opening, London, is a nuanced exploration of eroticism, mythology and cultural assumptions of femininityCourtesy the artist and Soft Opening, London
These conflicts speak to what it feels like to reside within a sexualised body. There are usually unmissable nods to the female form in the British artist’s sculptures, but for her new exhibition ‘In Mass and Feeling’ at Soft Opening in east London – opening alongsideIn place of dripping wet fruits and suggestive doughnuts, she has cast Little Tykes plastic toy cottages, a tricycle, and a deer in marble.
The deer appears to reside in the same mythological universe, with a white Turkish Sivec marble body and hand-carved ears that are eerily realistic, rendered in Portuguese pink marble with delicate vein markings. ‘It conflates the fragile, feminine, child-like and erotic,’ she explains. ‘The ears connote something more lifelike and alive, whereas the paler, drained of colour aspects of the body are like a passive formalism.
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