Nevine Mahmoud’s exhibition ‘in mass and feeling’ is open until 22 December. Each of these works exists as a simulation, a non-real. For Mahmoud, the fawn embodies a feminine archetype that represents elegance and fragility, attracting not just admiration but ideal-isation. By figuring a strange premature female, the fawn is arresting but inherently vulnerable. Pale, exposed and begging for observation, while sitting cautiously on a lonely stage, her pink hollowed ears indicate a conscious awareness and make evident a desire to hear, to communicate. In their uncanniness, in mass and feeling presents a group of false idols: each sculpture an implant, a warped, undetermined version of beauty, sombre in its misperceived innocence. Nevine Mahmoud fawn, she, 2022 Portuguese pink marble, Turkish Sivec marble 36 × 49 × 23 cm