Xxijra Hii, London x Studio/Chapple, London

Presenting small intimate sculpture and video works, immersing in subtle sound whilst unconsciously navigating around a floor-based ‘tunnel’. Xxijra Hii & Studio/Chapple tell a story of two artists, forming a world of personal histories and identity through material applications, relevant to generational storytelling, labor, home life, love, and loss. Preserving stories and artifacts of familial settings by means of a shrine; both invite us to engage in the mental processing of memory and representation.

HD Clerget presents objects that delve into the work of immigrant women, via Nail Art and micro-societies of nail salons. As a member of the Vietnamese diaspora, her works reflect a close relationship with the salon ecosystems, seeking to give tangible form to the labor and gestures of women from her community. Exploring familiar objects from interiors and places of Vietnamese families, she reworks these motifs using the materials and processes used when developing acrylic-based extensions and nail art.

Morgan presents carving, metalwork, and sound, exploring the physicality of identity and the human form in connection to surroundings. The work explores complexities of personal and collective identities, forming a pathway to HD Clerget’s work on the walls. This is an ongoing series drawing on underland entanglements based on caves and early mine cartography connected to her genetic heritage, through paternal labor and personal experiences of simultaneous loss and birth within the family.