Deadlift

2024

clay / aluminium / leather / reworked cricket pads / farm animal hair

Dimensions, variable

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Deadlift is a futile device, a series of impaired limbs reaching for connection. The hair grows from the cracks turning into a comforting apparatus. Like the cushions, its past is ambiguous and resurges through pores, sweat & carrion.

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The production process involves applying body pressure to a soft material and letting it settle at its own pace. Air, temperature and temporality determine shape. There is no back story, just a state of frenzy. Movement is anchored inside a small frame where aggregation is ambiguous. Underlining an inherent feeling of losing balance, the sculptures border uncertainty and paralysis. Their lack of life hints at a broken morphological sequence – organic or otherwise. Delicately bound by straps and buckles, these bodies hang in a suspended state longing for connection or warmth.

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