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Slow Emotion Replay

Studio Payoka's 2023 exhibition of new works by artists Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Scott Robson, Sarah Thornton-Smith and Michelle Ulrich at Stala Contemporary.

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Memory is a vinyl disc. In our heads a phonograph plays endlessly. The music is sometimes sublime, other times discordant. A scratch in the record might see the needle jump and skip in a loop of revision and reinterpretation. That same scratch might catch the light and become a fleeting, shining point, a sudden interruption to the slow spiral of a dark groove.

Slow Emotion Replay represents an eclectic body of 2D and 3D work suggesting the artists’ own experience listening to those backing-tracks of the mind.

Memory and emotion translated in form and material, abstracted or alluded to in dreams and stories. Moments which sit in harmony or in juxtaposition to the rhythm of the day. A record of the internal soundtrack.

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