Sensory Organs for the Alternative
(2023)
Ceramic, Steel, Iron Supplements, Water
163 cm, 140 cm, 100 cm
How can objects enact their own performance? Is the border between us and them porous and permeable?
The project “ sensory organs for the alternative” investigates the leaking body and how the oozing and calcifying of liquids can construct a sense of unease.
The installation consists of a steel system in which ceramic vessels, shaped as abstract fragmented parts of the body, are "growing" out of the pipes that hold them, as if the material mutated into something more bodily. These organs are filled with mineral salt liquids that leak through the porous clay body and leave traces on the surface of the sculpture, changing it over the course of the exhibition.
The project title draws on Avery Gordon's reading of Herbert Marcuse 'essays on liberation' where he uses the term "sensory organs for the alternative" imagining an instinctual drive for freedom that starts in the biological, and without which, we would fall apart.
Sensory Organs for the Alternative
(2023)
Ceramic, Steel, Iron Supplements, Water
163 cm, 140 cm, 100 cm
How can objects enact their own performance? Is the border between us and them porous and permeable?
The project “ sensory organs for the alternative” investigates the leaking body and how the oozing and calcifying of liquids can construct a sense of unease.
The installation consists of a steel system in which ceramic vessels, shaped as abstract fragmented parts of the body, are "growing" out of the pipes that hold them, as if the material mutated into something more bodily. These organs are filled with mineral salt liquids that leak through the porous clay body and leave traces on the surface of the sculpture, changing it over the course of the exhibition.
The project title draws on Avery Gordon's reading of Herbert Marcuse 'essays on liberation' where he uses the term "sensory organs for the alternative" imagining an instinctual drive for freedom that starts in the biological, and without which, we would fall apart.