Graduate show piece for my BA at Technological University Dublin.
Installed in a project space with blacked-out walls under a spotlight. The work gives the impression of being both adrift in a void and centred through its geometric construction.
During its first showing, the public wrote messages, prayers, and critiques on paper and placed them into the sculpture's crevices. These papers went on to further inform the project.
The piece is an animalistic figure carved into concrete blocks, made to depict a non-specific theist manifestation of a being. A non-humanoid form was chosen to convey a primordial kind of power.
Through the process of its build, the chippings of the counter-relief exposed the symbolic figure's material presence. The pictorial image - that of an imagined being - remains present in its physical absence. The attempt knowingly fails, as it cannot embody through corporeality that which is conceived as a transcendental concept.
Accompanying the sculpture at ground level were a series of flickering, digitally altered video loops.
Exhibits
- Momento, Standard Galería y Estudios, Valencia, ES (2016)
- New Living Art II, I.M.O.C.A., Dublin, IRL (2012)
- Student Art Expo, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, IRL (2011)
- T.U.D Grad Show, Portland Row, Dublin, IRL (2011)
Collection
This work is part of the collection of Standard Galería y Estudios, Valencia, ES.
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