03/09/2026
ON NOW: FRANCES GOODMAN "Peroral"
In her solo exhibition, Peroral, Goodman explores what we put into our mouths - food, medicine, and sources of pleasure - as well as the images we use to communicate desire. At once playful and provocative, the works move between nourishment and indulgence, health and pleasure, and the physical and the virtual. Doughnuts, bananas, and other comestibles are transformed into seductive ceramic objects.
The exhibition takes its title from the medical term peroral, meaning administered or taken through the mouth. The mouth becomes a point of departure for considering both physical consumption and contemporary forms of communication. In the digital vernacular of texting and social media, food has acquired an unmistakably erotic vocabulary: the peach, banana, eggplant, and other everyday images can function as coded references to bodies, s*x, and desire. Goodman plays with this slippage between the innocent and the suggestive, transforming familiar foodstuffs into objects that are humorous, sensual, and at times slightly uncanny.
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Frances Goodman
"Peachy Dreams", 2026
glazed ceramics
19 × 41 × 44 cm
Frances Goodman
