geline
Sienna Murdoch
No.9 Cork Street
Thursday 10th - Saturday 12th April
10am - 6pm
Touching Tour: Saturday 12th April
2pm - 6pm
Sienna Murdoch is pleased to present geline - her debut exhibition and first public presentation of her originally developed jelly-like biomaterial, courtesy of Frieze No.9 Cork Street.
Murdoch’s work, which centres on Geline, her material derived from seaweed extracts, embraces the spectrum between seduction and the grotesque and themes of tactility, impermanence and failure.
Mimicking the essential characteristics of consumable objects, her forms gesture toward function yet resist utility. They evoke the familiar – confectionary, cosmetics, tools, and toys – yet evade classification, indicating a realm just beyond our own grasp.
Some works tremble, others sweat, slide or slump into themselves, existing liminally between liquid and solid. A study in temptation and revulsion, Geline’s intimate scale invites touch while its ambiguity creates a sense of unease, challenges perceptions of materiality and highlight the absurdity of permanence.
Murdoch’s work is deeply sensory, offering a reclamation of pre-logic, pre-social bodily knowledge - a sensual pleasure before identity, language, and shame intervene. Her touch workshops reveal that our language for tactile sensation is underdeveloped compared to sight, reinforcing the dominance of visual culture. Through the process of describing touch, she explores how sensation bypasses logic, tapping directly into memory and emotion.
Touch will be prohibited until Saturday, the final day, from 2pm, when it will be encouraged. A newly installed collection of objects, gathered from contributors invited to participate by Sienna and Lucy Kumara Moore, will also be available for interaction, in collaboration with The Sensual World.
Murdoch’s sculptures request a new kind of care and engagement, dissolving and transforming when they no longer hold interest. Informed by her background in food aesthetics, she crafts hyperreal objects that exist between the edible and the intangible. Her recent work includes intricate food models for major film productions (Gladiator 2, Loki, Fantastic Four, Bridgerton) and bespoke moulds for Skye Gyngell, Hermès, and Stella McCartney.
After the exhibition, all works will be melted down and reincarnated into new forms.
Extras
⁃ Touch will be prohibited until Saturday 12th 2pm alongside a dedicated event with The Sensual World
⁃ Touch workshop on Friday 11th with Sasha Galitzine and Gerry’s Pompeii
⁃ One-off catalogue featuring photographs of the works by Lucy Sparks will be on display.
Events
Touch Tour with The Sensual World
Saturday 12th April | 2–6pm |
@the.sensual.world | www.thesensualworld.com
Programmed in collaboration with The Sensual World, the Touch Tour invites visitors to engage with the works in two ways:
- Touching Murdoch’s sculptures, which will have been restricted until this point.
- A new installation of objects, gathered from invited contributors and curated by Lucy Kumara Moore (founder of The Sensual
World) and Sienna which will be available to hold and experience in a dedicated space in the gallery, through visual and non
visual means. The Sensual World is a platform for the cultivation of physical pleasure.
Touch Workshop with Gerry’s Pompeii
Friday 11th April | 2:30pm - 4:30pm | @gerryspompeii | www.gerryspompeii.com
In collaboration with Gerry’s Pompeii and Sasha Galitzine, Sasha and Sienna will lead a touch workshop exploring sensory
perception. Through blind tactile exercises, participants will engage with found objects solely through touch, developing a tactile glossary for heightened sensory awareness and improving multi-sensory accessibility to art. Participants will be encouraged to
describe and document their experience, revealing how sensation bypasses logic to access deeper emotional resonances.
Gerry’s Pompeii is a charity founded by Sasha Galitzine that preserves Gerry Dalton’s canalside sculpture garden while fostering
playful and absurd community-led adventures that improve accessibility to art.
free, spaces limited, RSVP essential: hello@sienna.world - FULL
Photos by Lucy Sparks, Logo by Asel Tambay, Co-curated by Isabel Kuh
additional very speical thank you to Selvi May Akyildiz, Jason Roy, Julia Maria Podkowinski, Caius Pawson, Lucy Kumara Moore, Sasha Galitzine, Georgia Herman, Sian Rowe, Young Space, Abi Ford, Charlotte Call, Sophie Morris, Jane Wells, Hester Van Royan, Caroline Drevrait, Andrew Foxhall for their boundless expertise and generosity.