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I am interested in the relationship between physical presence and physical space and the resulting dialectics of inner and outer form. The question of place and location is placed within cultural, institutional, and psychological contexts. The object or the viewer can reveal the shape of a place or, the place of the body can be indicated as a void. Charging sculptural objects and spaces with meaning is an invitation for a physical interaction and the questioning of why things are the way they are and what would happen if they change.
Three-dimensional images of the body focus on humanity in general. They are stripped from narrative syntax of the body. Animal subjects are used to explore human experiences, while the differences between humans and other species, nature and culture are deconstructed. The correlation between individual and collective experiences and the irresolvable tensions between the two are explored through an object's reaction to another object. The objects are reexamined through transformation from their inanimate state into something that is immersed with a presence of an absent person.
I use anything from the concreteness clay to ephemeral materials and found objects to reflect on the organic and technological experiences of ourselves and our lives. The interplay between matter, space, object, and time, conveys the various meanings of my work.
Copyright © 2011 Marina Kuchinski