Location: Private Projects, Moonah, Hobart, Tasmania

Speaking in Tongues, is an exhibition that offers a surreal journey based on ongoing research around thin places and their connection to the immeasurable, old knowledge, and communication beyond language. Linda is showing two installations consisting of moving image works (16mm digitalised) and multiple ceramic sculptures made 2019.
This series of ceramics have been newly made for this exhibition. They relate to language, and specifically the tongue as a ‘thing’. The tongue as a muscle, an organ that shapes thoughts into words or song, taste, wet and dry; it acts as input as well as output. To pull it out of its context and make it into an object highlights our human ability to separate and dismiss our relations to other living things. It gets silenced. The variation of colours is pure material as language, what does one ‘see’ through the image of tongue(s) in gloss and saturated colours? Placed on the wall they resonate with climbing holds, an activity that shapes strength, balance and flexibility, an object made by us for us. Just like language.
The small finger sculptures are directly connected to the film of burying the eyes, to act as a seed for new life, a circular return. They are like puppets, imitating our fingers and eyes through a sort of ventriloquism. We can speak ‘through’ them. They also hold a cartoonish characterisation, which can be both disturbing and cute.
The bigger eye made from Swedish Upsala cobolt porcelain with powder coated metal structures are both sculptures and lights. Again made specifically for this exhibition, they are designed to not emit light but to reflect backwards and inwards, placing darkness where we normally perceive light, in front of the eye.

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