But if they stand or fall on their merits as exhibitions, not as instances of exhibitionism, then comfort can be taken in the sheer classiness of the crafted objects on show and we can all get on with the business of looking at art for its own sake. Horn is a sculptor whose medium combines metals and glass. His current works resemble props for a choreographic Cinderella in the prissy but precisely calculated manner of Sir Frederick Ashton. In keeping with this, they function best at a distance and would probably benefit from more theatrical lighting. Itchy Scratchy is the odd one out, since the massive silver crab that it depicts in bravura fashion does not derive from the Cinderella myth unless it alludes to a condition of the crotch experienced by an ugly sister.
Horn is capable of such an interpolation.
Buemi, in contrast, is an artist for understatement. Femme With Butch Tendencies, for example, consists of an exquisite length of crocheted cotton, the pink rings of which are clasped by steel crampons. No Hidden Extras is a flattened pubic triangle constructed from laser-cut aluminium segments inscribed with texts sourced in the Sapphic personals. That exhibit should should be enjoyed first hand. Equally poetic in their meaning, and to some extent in their methodology, their materials could hardly be more distinct.