Please be gentle is a group exhibition featuring three artists, Cindy Hill, Karice Mitchell and Devon Pryce, working across various media – sculpture, photography and painting. The exhibition explores bodies touching
– themselves, and others. Being crushed under the weight of things both tangible and emotional. Hard and soft. Exploring how we lie together and apart. Alone with our thoughts and anxieties and desires. Reaching out to grasp for skin or a page or a screen; for comfort, for release. Exploring the personal and political sides of intimacy. Full frontal or private, or both, at all together at once. Self-soothing and care as acts of personal intimacy. Running wild with fantasy and desire, while seeking comfort and safety in the arms of another.
Wanting it rough but also gentle. Our crazy and complex, sexy duplicities.

Cindy Hill’s sculptural work uses found objects and textiles to examine the relationship between design aesthetics and perceptions of the body. Engaging with themes of intimacy, care, and desire, Hill explores the complexities of somatic and feminist discourses. Karice Mitchell utilizes found imagery and digital manipulation to engage with issues relating to the representation of the Black femme body in Western visual culture and pornography. Through reappropriation, her work imagines possibilities for Black femme sexuality outside of the weight and constraints of hegemonic, Eurocentric standards and historical constructs. Devon Pryce paints intimate and tender snapshots, embodying equal measures of comfort and melancholy, wise with the knowledge of an expanded narrative that continues outside the picture plane.