I am everything you don’t want. I am everything you leave behind.
(I realise that the sofa comes under this title too)
Ok so been having a little fun researching dead horses. I’m still stuck on the discarded sofa I found in Brighton. The strong connection to dead horses. Especially with it’s four legs stiffly jutting out like rigamortis. Covered in layers of fabric like skin and fat.
My favourite of all the artists had to be Berlindfe De Brukyer, her relationship to the materials she uses is potent and I’m left unnerved and beguiled at the same time. Visceral and cruel her work is quiet matter fo fact and yet more subtle codes are embedded in her layers.
Some of my deep fears and darker encounters seem to reside somewhere in her work to, unsettled Want to leave yet continue to look, like a bad dream that I can’t leave.
https://www.galleriacontinua.com/artists/berlinde-de-bruyckere-21
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Points I’m mulling over in connection to my research questions:
What does it mean to be transformed? How does this occur?
To Discover Temporal and spacial locations in which a form of transformation happens.
What are the consequences?
Why are the outcomes?
Can we influence the process?
When does it occur naturally?
When has it happened in history?
How do other artists engage with transformation?
Are liminal places key in all this?
IMAGES USED>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A DEAD HORSE - (JEAN-LOUIS-THÉODORE GÉRICAULT)
Untitled (desiccated horse carcass sitting up) - Sidney Nolan (Australian, 1917-1992)
Hungry ones in Petrograd dividing a dead horse in the street (1917) - Ivan Vladimirov
Berlinde De Bruyckere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJwkXf5RK4
https://www.galleriacontinua.com/artists/berlinde-de-bruyckere-21
No Life Lost II, 2015
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/berlinde-de-bruyckere-at-hauser-wirth-new-york-6097/