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My work explores aspects of
two opposing polarities, place and non place, perhaps because I am
neither at home nor away from it. What prevails is a sense of
dislocation which runs through much of my work. Growing up in
Europe, with refugee parents, my past and my present became
intertwined when I immigrated to America. I became preoccupied with
the building and moving process and was drawn to the investigation
of the uncanny within the unstable nature of house and home. How do
we build and relocate our lives while striving to recreate the means
and markers of settlement. Soon I began to see the quiet unease
within the margins of urban spaces and the post industrial culture I
found myself in. This Progress continues unabated throwing up ever
sharpening questions about borders and territory.
Through bisecting the
disciplines of sculpture architecture and design I hope to invite
the examination of the built environment .
I am fascinated by the
objects I make and how their context reflects the paradoxes that
exists within our cultural history.
My process starts with
recording indexing and classifying an object, and works towards the
removal of its details. Trying to find the most generic or modular
version of itself. They are assuring in their representational
recognition but also full of doubts and uncertainty, deprived of
their expected function or place. The work is made by myself by
hand, learning specific fabrication needs as I go. They become mock
ready -mades, simulations or replicas, always life size in scale
oscillating between the specific and the generic.
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