Exclusive Co-launch: Artspace Presents New Limited Editions by Anna Perach
In partnership with Gasworks, Artspace is pleased to offer a new suite of 12 unique limited-edition sculptures by London-based artist Anna Perach. In vibrant shades, and her distinctive hand-tufted style, the wall-based edition depicts gloves gesturing, mid-argument, or mid-seduction. For Perach, a glove represents tactility and sensuality, masking the body and allowing it to reveal, transform, and become something else.
Touch, 2024
Visually referencing the Hamsa, a palm-shaped amulet used as a sign of protection, power, and strength, the editions touch on Perach's interest in spirituality and non-Western tradition. Each glove is adorned with symbology representing all-seeing eyes or feminine genitalia, hinting at our reliance on the body to protect us while also needing protection.
The title, Touch, references one of our most important senses, and how we understand and comprehend the world. In Perach's textile world, where bodies dwell inside and outside of her sculptures, they might rub up against these gloves for luck, out of tradition or ceremony.
About the Partner
Gasworks is a non-profit contemporary visual arts organization based in South London. Over the last 25 years, it has established a strong reputation for providing studios and for programming career-defining residencies and exhibitions for UK and international emerging artists. They are the hub of the Triangle Network, an international network of over thirty arts organizations, mostly based in Africa, Asia, and South America. Triangle Network regularly develops and facilitates artists’ residencies and workshops as well as peer-to-peer exchanges.
Gasworks regularly produces exclusive limited editions by artists involved in its exhibition and studio programs. These beautiful and affordable artworks, each signed and numbered by the artists, are generously created to raise funds for their programs.
