When folding chairs
In production, installation or storage, materials behave as provisional alignments with their given materiality. Instability becomes a generative force; a condition through which form emerges in negotiation rather than imposition. What if sculpture is not something made, but something that happens between us and the material world?
“What impels form is not a lack in matter but the generative interval between form and matter. And the interval always remains in play, ceaselessly inducing new formations and reformations. Matter and form entwine with each other in attractions, tensions, and acts that are never accomplished.”
Rebecca Hill (2011)
My process lends itself to revealing the latent dynamics of materials, and raises them to the status of active constituents in the material encounter. An investigation into sculpture as an event ensues, foregrounding the agency of materials, the contingency of process, and the relational dynamics between artist, material, and site.
At any rate, matter errs toward stability. It is an iterative author in its form. This project seeks to invert common associations of this ‘stability’, and create the opportunity for momentary encounters with instability.
