EDWINA MCLENNAN
HAPTIC FICTION
April 24 - May 16, 2026
Haptic Fiction presents a series of mixed-media works exploring the sensory, psychological, and spatial conditions of contemporary life. Situated between the tactile and the constructed, the compositions unfold as surreal, non-linear environments in which interior and exterior worlds collapse into one another. Fragmented cut-outs both accumulate and erode meaning, simultaneously building and unravelling narratives.
Operating within liminal and unresolved spaces, the works advance haptic paradigms that privilege touch, texture, and material presence against the dominance of the digital image.
Architectural lines and structural forms suggest frameworks of stability and belonging, yet remain fluid, continuously forming and dissolving. They reflect the malleable systems through which identity is shaped, where physical, social, and virtual frameworks can be rapidly constructed and rendered obsolete.
Figures emerge as silhouettes and fragments, anonymous yet undeniably human. Hands reach, grasp, and extend across compositions, reflecting cycles of desire and relentless pursuit. Multiple temporalities coexist as spaces fold and architectures dissolve, leaving narratives open-ended. Within this instability, identity is continuously assembled, negotiated, and reimagined.
McLennan’s practice considers consumer culture’s role in shaping desire and selfhood. By deconstructing the visual language of mass media, she exposes tensions between agency and influence, surface and depth, and the possibilities in between.
Haptic Fiction invites viewers into an immersive terrain that oscillates between familiarity and estrangement, where meaning is not prescribed but felt, opening space to reflect on how we perceive and continually remake ourselves within an image-saturated world.
