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Inside the outside

Jade de Montserrat and
Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King

May 8 -
June 13
2026

Flexitron is pleased to present Inside the outside, a duo show of work by Jade de Montserrat and Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King.

It began with an extending; extending word; wood to charcoal; then to hand and to body to page. There is one and another body, but in relationship with each other they could be anybody. Extending limbs to the tap of the stick, making a beat that is something like the arrythmia of a certain tone of Blackness.

Extending a note is like extending time. Stretching a mark until it becomes something else, because it’s true that one thing always informs the next and that an exchange like this should not settle to one principle of time.

And there’s no guidebook or rehearsal but there have been conversations beforehand that talk of Gutai where the body is used as a tool just like any other utensil, and the land is an active participant in the making of thought and matter that becomes image.

So they move in this space that was intended to be the outside but now is the inside, and there is glass which allows for a listening through looking. And what we see is that the gestures, some automatic, some in response carry on for a duration in the pursuit of forming a language that without speech records interaction. An interruption that splits, it could be the break of charcoal or


Pause-


And again, there are no singular beings in this. An archy. Apply to that note what you wish.


To observe this isn’t really just that, it is to circulate between a place of knowing and not knowing.

Stutter. The trip of material is guided by everything in its orbit. So if this is read even after-
the aftermath of sound will map the marks and those that made them.

Exhibition text by Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King




1.    Jade de Montserrat and Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King, Inside the outside, 2026, Charcoal on Laid Paper, Dimensions Variable



Biographies

Jade de Montserrat

Dr. de Montserrat works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. Concerned with challenging structures of care in institutions and with the intersection of gender, race, class, and colonialism, often in the context of life in rural communities, she makes artworks that explore the vulnerability of bodies, the importance of recording and preserving history, and the tactile and sensory qualities of language. Jade de Montserrat has exhibited across the UK and internationally, and is represented by Bosse & Baum Gallery, London. de Montserrat is a Tutor at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and Lecturer in Painting at Slade, University College London.

Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King

Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King (b.1998) is a London based painter, having graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2022 she has now recently completed an MA at the Slade School of Art. Her work is a conversation between the body, movement and materiality. Working across a large scale in paint and drawing, alongside sound production to bring to her works a visual frequency that exists beyond the auditory. Capturing motion in mark. Highlights of recent exhibitions include ‘Antiphony’ Matt Carey-Williams, London (Duo, 2026), ‘Urban Dwellers’ LVH at the Painting Rooms, London (2025), Echo Soho, London (2025).