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Brigitte Mulholland presents MOULDING EXTENSION, the inaugural solo exhibition of French artist Emily Orta. Three distinctive zones, CABINET, METAMORPHOSIS and BESTIAIRE call viewers into a potent bodily journey; their own corporeal form is compelled to lean in closer, to circulate, to become enmeshed in the unfolding growth of Orta’s otherworldly entities.

The title of the show conjures the artist’s sculptural process. Manipulation, invention, and interpretation of the inanimate clay catalyses distinctive yet enigmatic forms that evolve from fleshy bacterial-like matter into raw animalistic subjects writhing in a state of flux before arriving into fully formed surrealist chimeras. Just as the human body flows in a constant state of cellular transformation, forming and reforming, Orta’s work parallels this organic fluidity. The three progressive zones illuminate the symbiosis between material and immaterial realms evoking the infinite mutation of flesh in contrast to the eternal haunting of soul. Each sculpture is one fragment of a life-cycle and a reminder of the shaping and reshaping of tactile yet intangible identity.