Inspired by museum cleaners and the bodies on which classical sculptures were once based, Richard Malone’s new exhibition A Record of Tenderness is an ode to the hidden work behind great art
In Malone’s films, dancers make and respond to repeated gestures, nodding to the postures of classical sculpture but also to “the things that queer people know as quite iconic that aren’t recorded in museums”: the movement of Liza Minnelli’s knees in Cabaret, for example, or the way Barbra Streisand uses her hands. In one of the films, Canopy, dancers brush up against a translucent screen, fleetingly leaving their impressions on the fabric.
Of one of the cloth figures, positioned kneeling on the floor, Malone says: “A lot of people think it’s some religious thing. To me, it looks like someone who is about to sand a skirting board.” Underpinning all of Malone's work, whether clothing or art, is the artist’s own hand.
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