Syntactically speaking, seams are the simplest of conjunctions, holding two or more parts in relation: this and that, provisionally arranged, pressed into proximity. An offcut of wire and discarded wax. Sculptures and works on paper. Carola Friess and Kerry Lee Chambers.

Friess and Chambers approach their thematic enquiries with a tactile materiality and an intuitive engagement with the grammar of otherwise overlooked things, from found objects to studio flotsam, things “jettisoned” in Friess’s words, or “fallen” in Chambers’s. Both artists are attentive to moments of contact between unlike parts, to the seams of touch that exist between one thing and another, and to the interdependency of difference such encounters might suggest.