‘Hold’ is an exhibition of new sculpture and moving-image work by Jolanta Dolewska and Elke Finkenauer, exploring themes of power, care, adaptation and resistance. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Laura Haynes, and a limited edition publication.
Dolewska’s moving-image work ‘Overthrows’ presents a play-like engagement between a performer and un/human soft sculptures. This encounter draws on grappling techniques from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, based on the idea that a smaller person can overcome a larger one through technique. Seeking to trace movements of engagement, defence, and withdrawal she explores the potential for overthrow inherent in the process of physical encounter. A series of ceramic sculptures ‘Heads’ document the physical impacts of varied self-defence manoeuvres.
Finkenauer’s work ‘Tend to Improbable Structures’ is a series of sculptural snapshots reimagining unconventional constructions her late-father built around the home, like an outdoor TV shelf under a grapevine lit by coloured bulbs. Using what was to-hand he created slices of a personal, practical utopia. Borrowing his fabrication ethos she re-imagines these forms in wood offcuts, repurposed fabric and construction paper – material remnants of lived-in spaces and a practice of working things out.
‘Hold’, New Glasgow Society , 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL
Exhibition open 7th-16th November 2025, 11am-5pm (closed Monday/Tuesday)
Preview 6th November 6-8pm
Artist talk and reading 8th November 2pm-3pm
Artist talk and reading 8th November 2pm-3pm