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Graphite on Paper, Acrylic Box Frame

308 x 46.5cm

Framed

2024

£15,000

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Goldsmiths CCA presents the first institutional exhibition by artist duo Louis Blue Newby and Laila Majid. Inner Heat places a series of new drawings into conversation with sculptural elements of public infrastructure, examining the dynamic between private image consumption and the public realm.

Both solo practising artists, Newby and Majid’s shared practice has evolved, from a constant exchange of found imagery, gathered to create an archive of printed and digital material in what has become an instinctive shared language. Fluidly moving between mediums, their work has reconfigured visuals scraped from sources such as online forums, social feeds, subreddits and Pornhub. Developed via mediation and presented through a distorting lens – at times overlaying constellations of images with translucent resin, cast from leather to look like skin (Spread, 2022-ongoing); at others, using 16mm film to capture a screen showing a sequence of amorphous AI generated samples (south florida sky, 2022) – their work coaxes distance between audience and image, and in doing so gestures to an alternate style of image consumption: one in which the passive is made intimate and active.