139 x 195mm, 52 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

'to rest amongst the blades' presents a new body of work by Abi Charlesworth, curated by Thomas Lee Griffiths. Documenting a two-part solo exhibition in partnership with GLOAM Gallery and Haarlem Artspace; materials converse site specifically in sculptural installations.

Responding to a body of ongoing text, poetically exploring notions of depression via traces in the body through landscape and archaeology. A realisation of a journey emerges out of a crevasse where planes of memories, objects and emotions are passed through.

Sedimentary layers unfold a personal narrative, encoded with fossils and absent figures. Ceramic and cast fragments hold the petrified remains of object encounters. Artificial fossils show a preoccupation with a dystopian future, concerned with a debris ridden landscape where items hold no value.

Charlesworth is asking what physical traces will we leave behind and what traces we leave on each other. Abstracted archaeological aids are used to hold excavated sculptures, pulled from her inner depths. Held in place, they are carefully displayed as an open wound in the dissection of grief.

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