Honey Long & Prue Stent

In ancient Greece the female body was defined by excessive moisture and deemed less articulated than it’s idealised male counterpart. To participate in wetness was to be more porous to the world and the processes of life at the cost of form.

But liquidity is inescapable and in its very nature uncontainable, it eventually seeps and penetrates even the most polished and disciplined of structures. In ‘Hygro’ The female nude becomes a conduit, ebbing and flowing across time and space it asserts itself within a shimmering web of material relations, creaturely associations and looping cycles of life and decay.

Honey Long and Prue Stent (both b. 1993 Sydney on Gadigal land), have worked together since 2010, developing a practice that traverses photography, moving image, performance, installation and sculpture. Working from a shared subjectivity and longstanding friendship, they have continuously explored their complex relationship to femininity and the natural world. Through their signature photographic-performative style they often depict bodies, their own and others, as abstracted uncanny forms, intrinsically linked to their surroundings.