Smooth Metal Body

‘Smooth Metal Body’ is the sister work to one of the larger hanging digitally-printed silk works which Alice Channer made for her solo show 'Out of Body' at the South London Gallery in 2012. Each of the works in this series feature radically stretched and distorted digital prints of stone-carved classical drapery. There is a series of transitions embodied in the translations Channer makes, from the original sculptures' 3-D stone carved draping that accounts the skirts of the 'Three Nerieds' of fourth Century BC Xantos, now turned back into a fabric of crepe de chine as a two dimensional digital print. On the reverse of the silk, smoke rings are printed approximately the height of a standing human mouth, emphasising the shifts of scale in the piece from the human to non-human.