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Image 1: Emma Finneran, Stick Together, (2020). Vinyl on glass, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist. Image 2-4: Contact Us installation view.

Moving mouths, darting eyes, cursory handshakes; each gesture is a way we connect in silent contract. Contact Us invites Emma Finneran, Tom Polo and Campbell Patterson to trace these and other ethereal and tangible actions through video, installation and painting.

Through accumulated gesture and the residue that remains, Emma Finneran collects the narratives of performed actions. From the way we wash our hands to the film of grease a body imprints onto a glass window, Finneran highlights these vocalised intimacies and shows us that we are all unwittingly communicating; we are forever touching.

Tom Polo hones in on the physical and emotional zones of contact between people, to describe the modes of our interpersonal relationships and the trace we leave on each other in touch and tone. In doing this, Polo thinks about how our hands, eyes and mouths act as the communicative pit-stop between desire and will.

Meanwhile, Campbell Patterson revisits past video works and new collections of discarded (sometimes stolen) items collected over time to examine emotional responses, personal boundaries and the abjectness of the bodies of strangers.

EXHIBITION
CONTACT US

ARTISTS
EMMA FINNERAN
TOM POLO
CAMPBELL PATTERSON

LAUNCH 
FRIDAY 6 MARCH
6-8PM

EXHIBTION DATES
7 MARCH – 3 MAY
2020

PROJECT SPACE
MOBILE COLOUR
BY STUDIO A

OPENING HOURS 
THURSDAY – SUNDAY
11AM-5PM

ARTSTORE

THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE NSW GOVERNMENT THROUGH CREATE NSW

THANKS TO OUR PRIMARY PRINT AND PROJECTION PARTNER EPSON

SPONSORS

We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation,

the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Cement Fondu stands.

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