Form Fitting
Duplex Residency, Lisbon

In a material and bodily exploration of the abject, the project, Form Fitting, finds its way to beauty. 

 

My three month residency at Duplex represents a laboratory of experimental forms and textures that co-mingle and layer, emulating bodily intimacies, in search for novel material combinations that grow from a desire to exchange flatness for visceral human connection manifested in sculptural formations. 

 

By embracing a sensuous way of working within this process of form making through the abject, the work poses a feminist inquiry into what it might look like to just be a body. Sculptural bodies are represented as such through both entropy and geometry, while in both, irregularity is celebrated as an organic, imperfect, multilayered  collection.To start with, the material itself acts as a vehicle for this, as it is literally alive. Wheatpaste binds with ripped transparent paper to be layered upon a wire frame, acting as a skin. Each batch of substance is different from the last, varying in texture and consistency,  further embracing the irregularity of the body. Like the body, the material ages. It becomes discolored and patchy, spotty and chunky. A bit smelly. The bodies get a bit floppy.

 

And while in the process of these bodies always becoming, the elements always exposed, the process within these bodies is that of reproducing, fermenting and decaying all at once. The more the sculptures age, the more beautiful they become.