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Gumul presents the work of two female artists working in proximity to develop a material dialogue that speaks to each of their social and conceptual concerns.

The title GUMUL has a translated meaning around wrestling or enduring with force and grit. This reflects the subjective intensity of both artists' works that explore the contemporary female subject and its political contingencies through process and idea. Ruth works via embodied acts of drawing and painting to confront the self and its social relations, whilst Maya intersects the political with the personal through a material and intellectual coalescence of aggregate forms via graphic means.

Both artists use expanded installation practices so that their works exit the two-dimensional surface to wrestle with the viewers' haptic gaze. Their works operate at a highly affectual level, with Ruth’s rich paper surfaces intersecting with the raw texture of the discarded pieces of wood that hold them intimately, whilst Maya’s screenprints reproduce and remediate images of crowds at protests and gatherings and the overload of images on her computer monitor into a kind of material and conceptual aggregate – printed onto found and discarded domestic sheets to converge the intimacy of power and its gendered relations.