UNTITLED
(Resistance)
The sculptures are a scope of negotiation between material freedom and imposed constraint. Foam in itself is supple, porous, expansive, in other words, it recollects its shape, but it cannot be fully controlled. I explore the movements of repression and the traces of force visible by binding and pressing it. The tied with latex rubber does not simply contain the foam, it writes memory on its surface, and leaves traces of domination even after it is set free. In my practice, I am attracted to responding, resisting, and revealing materials. They represent contradictions between freedom and restraint, vulnerability and strength, being and nothingness. Shaping is not only the imposition of form, but a conversation with the tendencies of the material. What comes out are sculptural bodies that are simultaneously held and holding back, vulnerable and resilient.
(Resistance)
The sculptures are a scope of negotiation between material freedom and imposed constraint. Foam in itself is supple, porous, expansive, in other words, it recollects its shape, but it cannot be fully controlled. I explore the movements of repression and the traces of force visible by binding and pressing it. The tied with latex rubber does not simply contain the foam, it writes memory on its surface, and leaves traces of domination even after it is set free. In my practice, I am attracted to responding, resisting, and revealing materials. They represent contradictions between freedom and restraint, vulnerability and strength, being and nothingness. Shaping is not only the imposition of form, but a conversation with the tendencies of the material. What comes out are sculptural bodies that are simultaneously held and holding back, vulnerable and resilient.
The sculptures are an exploration of how matter recalls violence and adjusts itself to confinement. It is turned into a metaphor of human and ecological states of being, in which pressures, limits, and systems of control are the determinants of existence, but still within them is the possibility of re-entry,
of re-formation, of regaining form.
of re-formation, of regaining form.