to rest amongst the blades

to rest amongst the blades is a layered exploration of grief, depression, and the traces left behind by bodies, objects, and landscapes. Documenting Abi Charlesworth’s two-part solo exhibition at GLOAM Gallery and Haarlem Artspace, the publication brings together sculpture, sound, research, critical writing, and poetic text to form an abstract archaeological site of inner experience.
 
Through casts, fragments, and artificial fossils, Charlesworth treats memory as sediment—compressed, fractured, and preserved over time. Industrial debris, volcanic landscapes, and archaeological supports become metaphors for care, rupture, and survival, asking what we leave behind, and what we carry within us. Moving between darkness and light, collapse and exposure, the work unfolds across two sites, echoing the non-linear nature of healing.
 
Both intimate and expansive, to rest amongst the blades invites the reader to dwell in moments of stillness, to witness absence, and to consider rest not as resolution, but as a fragile, necessary pause within unstable terrain.
 
139 x 195mm, 52 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025