Remnant, 2018
Sculpture
Aluminium, MDF, rubber, acrylic paint, spray paint
As the distance between the technological, architectural, mechanical and biological collapses we increasingly form new relationships between the body and the material world. Through time it seems that these relationships will become ever closer to a point where they become symbiotic. Humans exist within a state of constant decay from the moment of their birth; by contrast the man-made lives in a state of relative invulnerability which, over time, allows it to be stripped of its previous functions. Within these new landscapes repeated structures and patterns are ubiquitous, continuous and predictable, yet they are occasionally broken and fragmented. As we move through and orientate ourselves within this certain terrain we are occasionally confronted by voids and absence. Uncertainty. A moment of living. Remnant is an installation, comprised of two individual sculptures, Anatomy and Lacuna, which explores this evolving system. Anatomy and Lacuna are constructed of aluminium, both containing areas of uncertain space. Anatomy contains a plane of black viscous matter and Lacuna, a black void, creating a tension between the two sculptures. The work draws on diagrammatic anatomical and architectural models, distorting scale and hijacking visual languages, creating an undetermined terrain where the purpose of our made objects is undefined.
