Tell me what you are. Will you hold me in your arms?

Jemima Lucas is a Naarm-based artist whose practice explores the movement and agencies between material, architecture, and viewer. In Tell me what you are. Will you hold me in your arms? Jemima invites the viewer to become a subject within an immersive work, enabling a site for participation and to consider poetic-bodily fragmentation. Suspended in the Atrium, a large-scale sculpture envelopes the entrance with a membrane-like barrier, pertaining to a space for danger and transformation. This exhibition situates the architecture of Incinerator Gallery and anthropomorphic materials as active conduits for the viewer, suggesting a body that is boundless and not confined to the barriers of the skin.

"My work threatens ones perception of the non penetrability of the body. It wants to prod, poke a hole in the very composition of our body, our society. Of which disciplinary powers beseech conformity and placidity. It casts light on the control that we adhere to in our day to day lives and pierces through that reality - offering autonomy as a proposed action of resistance."
— Jemima Lucas, Will You Hurt Me? (2021)