Born Male
Sculpture, Work, 2011
Surrounded by an ornate gallery with Corinthian columns and opulently moulded cornicing a series of objects are presented on a Kubrick-like reflective black monolithic slab. At one side sits an elliptical column form looking like an oversized marble pillow, at the other is a corrugated sandwich of forged copper and neon-blue wax. The bent edges of the thick copper plates seem shell-like in their half-sunk profiles, both protecting and squashing the fleshy wax within.
The title ‘Born Male’ invokes a missing figure, masculine at one time.
(On closer inspection)
The marble form is in fact an intensely painted faux surface of emerald green, cobalt blue, turquoise and rust brown – a peacock façade disguising the MDF on which it’s painted.
Futher Information on the exhibition
- Exhibition: You Me Something Else
- Tags: Copper, MDF, Paint, wax
