In House: Ree Bradley and Pete Gomes is the fourth of Studio Voltaire’s series of duo exhibitions curated by their onsite community of Studio Artists.

This exhibition asks, “How can you translate the experiential?” Through sound, film and image, the artists seek to translate dynamic and intimate group experiences as they explore alternative ways of being together and inner psychological states through improvisation and somatic practices.

Ree Bradley’s The Mind is a Group Muscle, (2025) is a social project exploring alternative body-based therapies through group workshops and filmmaking. For this iteration, a group of men (including the artist) came together to explore the somatic practices of Re-Birthing Breathwork, Emotional Freedom Tapping and Dance Movement Psychotherapy. These practices led the group into unconscious and childlike states often buried in the body and breath. For the artist, such bodily states offer alternative spaces to question the relationships between constructs of masculinity and mental health. The project’s title references Yvonne Rainer’s 1968 performance, The Mind is a Muscle, drawing a link between histories of experimental dance and the use of body therapies to deconstruct notions of masculinity. Exhibited here is a version of the artwork, showing 16 mm footage and drawings from two of the four workshops the group participated in together. The wider social project included a somatic consent session for the group in response to the footage. Each member of the group owns a 10% financial share in any distribution of the resulting artwork.