LONDON.- In Body Conscious, Alice Channer’s second solo show at The Approach, the focus of her work has moved away from the body of the room, to the human bodies it is in the room with. The body itself is never represented, instead, a conscious human body is everywhere that the work is not. The body that the works bring about is neither solid and central, or immediate and primal. Instead, it is mediated and extended by technology and commodified. Both of these factors explode and expand it, as well as contracting and concentrating it. The works consider the way in which the artists’ sensory apparatus – her tools as an artist – are mediated by consumption and technology. The large-scale hanging fabric work, Tight Skin uses a digital printing process to create stretched images of clothing prints taken from the bodies of amphibians. The works were made using a stretch snake print Primark vest and a stretch lizard