A lot of Alex’s pieces focus on the mouth, as one of the major sites of physical breakdown between external and internal body. Both sexually, and as part of the digestion process, the mouth is an image we immediately associate with both the pleasant and unpleasant, a line Alex toys often in his practice. Both ‘Lockjaw’ and ‘Silver Teeth’ focus on the jaw and the teeth, as the solid parts of the mouth. Changing the texture of them, whether into a rubbery substance or a solid metal, creates a visceral reaction in the viewer as we immediately run our tongue across our own teeth to check they’re still as we left them.