UNTITLED
(Resistance)
The sculptures are an extent of bargaining between material liberation and a constraint that is imposed. Foam itself is pliant, porous, expansive, in other words, it remembers its form, yet it is not completely controllable. I experiment with the movements of repression and the marks of force that can be seen through binding and pressing it. The tied with latex rubber does not merely hold the foam inside, it imprints memory on its surface, and leaves the marks of domination even after the release. Responding, resisting, and revealing materials are appealing to me in my practice. They are paradoxes of liberty and restraint, weakness and power, existence and non-existence. Shaping does not merely consist of imposing form, but a dialogue with the inclinations of the material. What emerges are sculptural bodies that are both gripping and gripped, fragile and strong.
(Resistance)
The sculptures are an extent of bargaining between material liberation and a constraint that is imposed. Foam itself is pliant, porous, expansive, in other words, it remembers its form, yet it is not completely controllable. I experiment with the movements of repression and the marks of force that can be seen through binding and pressing it. The tied with latex rubber does not merely hold the foam inside, it imprints memory on its surface, and leaves the marks of domination even after the release. Responding, resisting, and revealing materials are appealing to me in my practice. They are paradoxes of liberty and restraint, weakness and power, existence and non-existence. Shaping does not merely consist of imposing form, but a dialogue with the inclinations of the material. What emerges are sculptural bodies that are both gripping and gripped, fragile and strong.
The sculptures can be described as an experiment of how matter remembers violence and adapts to confinement. It is made a metaphor of human and ecological conditions of being, where pressures and limits and systems of control are the determinants of existence, yet within them is the possibility of re-entry, of re-formation, of regaining form.