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In this series of works, soft ribbon like forms undulate and coil, and their fluidity is interrupted or probed by sharp triangular forms. Despite their abstraction, Alanna’s constructions evoke soft matter inside the body. Pink and fleshy and coiled, they recall the tightly wound tubes of the intestine or brain and sit like decontextualised pieces of anatomy on the page. Her forms are somatically affecting and, when probed by the solid rigidity of foreign form, she visually simulates the wounding of flesh, the impact of sharp on soft, the folding in on itself of our body when trauma occurs.

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