Bodies are keepers of secrets, as they operate largely outside the reaches of consciousness and vision. This work is the artists' endeavor to mine the body’s secrets and to invent what it will not disclose. Their drawings visualize this body through the lenses of medicine, religion, and love – each of which offers a distinct account of what this body is, what it’s for, and how to care for it.

Unsettling the binaries of internal/external, subjective/objective, and emotional/clinical, the artists envision the lover who is also the medical patient, the act of worship that is both chaste and erotic, the human who is both saint and beast, and this flesh which is both self and stranger. Portraying only their bodies, they "perform" surgical procedures, intimate genuflections, and feats of miraculous healing on themselves and each other in these drawings, and serve as the stewards of one another’s secrets.

Ghislaine and Lando often fabricate their reference imagery through digital collage, which enables them to "transplant tissue," lifting the skin from one body and grafting it onto another. In physically collaged works, they enact this same process with parts cut from their own drawings. They build the bones of each piece with charcoal, the mass with gouache, and the skin with chalk pastel. The immense scale makes the viewer an inhabitant of the work, drawing them into intensely intimate proximity with the bodies portrayed, unimpeded by a frame.

Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on view through August 19.