The amalgamation of bodies is a thread running throughout ‘Interior’. Upstairs, Jake Grewal’s One and One (2020) depicts two young male figures blended at the hip; next to this, Félix Vallotton’s Quatre Torses (1918) shows four sturdy female bodies merging. Vallotton’s nudes hint at the despair of World War I: all four have the tops of their heads cut off by the crop of the canvas, their faces largely hidden by their long, dark hair. In wartime, the artist implies bodies become viewed as disposable, detached from the significance of the life within.
