The show assembles a compelling corpus of drawings and paintings that interrogate the human figure as a liminal zone; caught between observation and abstraction, presence and withdrawal.

Rooted in rigorous life-drawing practice, Coe distils the body to its elemental constituents of line, mass, and gesture. Through disciplined acts of restraint and omission, she allows form to surface organically, yielding figures that linger in a state of poised ambiguity. These silhouettes appear softened, unresolved, and suspended within an indeterminate spatial and psychological field.

At the conceptual heart of the exhibition lies the notion of unbinding - a purposeful dismantling of the symbolic, cultural, and aesthetic regimes that traditionally dictate how the body is read. By eschewing narrative, overt expression, and hierarchical composition,

Coe’s works subvert fixed meanings and the codified logic of the gaze. The body is presented not as a static image or object, but as a mutable structure, perpetually open to re-configuration.

Stillness functions as a governing condition throughout the series. Figures recline, extend, or hover without theatrical flourish or heroic dramatization, refusing both performance and idealisation. In this suspension, the body exists without assertion, inhabiting a space where value is neither imposed nor withdrawn, but held in a state of abeyance.

Drawing operates simultaneously as method and proposition, mediating the tension between the immediacy of visual perception and an interior, speculative register. Through processes of reduction and repetition, Coe enacts unbinding as a quiet, reparative gesture – loosening inherited signifiers and repositioning the body as a site of possibility rather than resolution.