soft sculpture
soft sculpture
Most of these works are made of flexible polyurethane.
Using a mold, artisans cover it, in some cases, with handmade felt and add ceramic pieces.
Flexible urethane rubber can replace the ceramic parts. It is not a mass production work; those are usable sculptures. In some works,
I use EVA foam sculpted by heat and glue to make the form. Other materials are epoxy resin, metal, wood, glass, and wire.
My work is about contradiction: the tension between alienation and assimilation. About the importance of touch, the need for touch, and the fear of touch. By touch, you define yourself.
By touch, you place yourself. By touch, you dissolve into others. Our continuity is created by touch, and without it, we begin to suspect we do not exist at all. Those are usable objects, and "use" is a declaration against them as in favor of the theme. They surrender and refuse to surrender. I wanted them outside of me; I wanted them to be strangers.
Yet they are images of internal organs. I don’t know if I like them, and I think that’s the way I want it to stay. I won't describe them. They mix contradictions: soft and hard, repulsive and beautiful, there and here.
90x60x50cm'- wood, polyurethane,epoxy, hand made felt
130x40x50 cm'- polyurethane,epoxy, hand made felt,
150x90x50cm'- polyurethane,hand made felt
100x90x50cm'-, metal ,epoxy, polyurethane,hand made felt
polyurethane epoxy-25x40x35cm'- small model
100x50x35cm'- metal, foam, hand made felt
150x140x70cm'- ,wood, metal, foam, hand made felt, fabric
175x150x90cm'- wood, foam, hand made felt, fabric
150x90x55cm' polyurethane, foam, epoxy, metal
90x80x50 cm'-polyurethane, foam, epoxy, metal
100x40x40cm' polyurethane, foam, epoxy, metal
70x60x50cm' wire, silicon,clay
25x25x25cm'-wire, glass, silicon
90x25x30 cm'-fiberglass, glass, wire