Josephine Cachemaille, Hubris, 2024, Fired clay 600 x 140 X 90mm. Photo by Tim Cuff.

Sanderson presents the exhibition New Psychic Life by Josephine Cachemaille.

In New Psychic Life Cachemaille draws together a range of symbolic objects to articulate the contours of her interior landscape. There is something intrinsically unknowable about interiority, in both bodily and psychic forms. Cachemaille turns to these spaces in which we dwell – our bodies and our unconscious minds – and sifts through their fragments to unearth something relational, something generative, something invitational.

Despite the symbolic clues offered by the artist’s materials and their titles, Cachemaille’s figures evade the grasping hand of definition. Their symbolism remains stubbornly – satisfyingly – oblique. The figures and forms which populate New Psychic Life have emerged from the artist’s recent experimentation with self-directed meditation. Loosely inspired by the Jungian practice of active imagination, a form of meditation intended to bridge the unconscious and conscious realms. She explains that this process ‘seems to activate archetypal images from my unconscious, to bring them into the present so I can examine them, understand them, do something with them.’