The Tunisian Revolution and global lockdowns are two historic catalysts that lead both Ghada Chamma and Jenny Mustill towards a new artistic approach, driven by a desire for sanctuary and the ensuing retreat into their own internal landscapes. Both Ghada and Jenny found their meditation practice beginning to fuse directly with
their art.
The exhibition is part of an ongoing series of conversations at Koop Projects
between an African artist (Ghada Chamma) and an artist based in Sussex (Jenny
Mustill).
The artworks are explorations of the space between the conscious
and unconscious; they are expressions of memory, imagination and movement. For
Jenny Mustill, accessing this liminal space became a ritual and a place of solace that
manifested as figures dancing and taking flight. Whilst Ghada Chamma describes
the blending of her meditation practice with her art as a kind of “sensory nomadism”
in which the body becomes its own poetic material. Through painting and sculpture the exhibition explores the ways both artists experienced this withdrawal from the outside world and the return to themselves