I wanna hold the hand inside you
CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain•Sep 26, 2025 — Nov 08, 2025
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In I wanna hold the hand inside you, Lauryn Youden engages with the furniture designs of Eileen Gray, drawing attention to the understated sensuality embedded in works often characterized through the lens of modernist austerity. In dialogue with four of Gray’s pieces, Youden reorients their presence—interrupting conventional functionality and positioning them instead as sites of care, desire, and intimacy.
Eileen Gray’s furniture, historically celebrated for precision and restraint, is framed by Lauryn Youden as something more porous: an altar, a resting place, a vessel of affect. Through a Crip lens, she reveals the corporeal dimension already present in Gray’s practice, foregrounding the body not as a neutral user but as a desiring and unruly presence. In this reframing, Gray’s modernism becomes an architecture of care—one that accommodates exhaustion, pleasure, collapse, and pain. Rather than evoking the cold ass…
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I wanna hold the hand inside you
CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain•Sep 26, 2025 — Nov 08, 2025
Press Release
In I wanna hold the hand inside you, Lauryn Youden engages with the furniture designs of Eileen Gray, drawing attention to the understated sensuality embedded in works often characterized through the lens of modernist austerity. In dialogue with four of Gray’s pieces, Youden reorients their presence—interrupting conventional functionality and positioning them instead as sites of care, desire, and intimacy.
Eileen Gray’s furniture, historically celebrated for precision and restraint, is framed by Lauryn Youden as something more porous: an altar, a resting place, a vessel of affect. Through a Crip lens, she reveals the corporeal dimension already present in Gray’s practice, foregrounding the body not as a neutral user but as a desiring and unruly presence. In this reframing, Gray’s modernism becomes an architecture of care—one that accommodates exhaustion, pleasure, collapse, and pain. Rather than evoking the cold ass…
