Subsistent Bodies

 

Interrelation of Four Hybrid States

 

The intention of this installation is to construct a staged narrative of experience in which the increments of material time can be experienced. The work centres on the construction of a microcosm of controlled matter in order to question our relationship to material bodies, and how we perceive objects that operate on the borderlines of organic and synthetic materiality. These bodies subsist on the space, their ephemeral living qualities being reliant on an environment and on the contract of maintenance between material life cycle and the maker’s body. The reliance developed between the artist and the evolving bodies creating a symbiotic relationship between site, body, and material. These interrelations are left for the viewer to engage with. The living dimension of the artist’s body and the produced bodies are documented in the residual and impermanent forms the objects take on within the gallery site. The viewer is invited in to a defined language of material actions, transitions, and attributes, all imbued into the objects through the evolution of their growth cycles, amidst states of formation and desiccation. The fallibility of synthetic bodies moving through their iterative cycles.

The action of holding in relation to these subsistent body, holding used as a keystone, a symbolic impression that is used as a repeated pattern in the production phase and the state of attachment the objects find themselves in. This becomes central to the ethos of growth, the holding, feeding, tending, all become actions of nurturing or caring that are required of the object for it to move between phases.  These actions become the catalyst for its life and for the experience of ephemeral synthetic object mortality for the audience.

Here the deliberate segregation of bodies are mediated with an accompanying text.

Language forms the residue of the body when abdicated from the objects.

 

 

Materials used: Iron sulphate, liquidized steel wool, latex, PVA, household varnish, water,