Self-making Human

2023

Installation of sculptures (wood, fabric, wadding, plaster, silicone) and ready-made objects (furniture).
Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Figure is human sized.

Art association ITU’s 2022 summer exhibition had ARCHEOLOGICAL THINKING as its theme. I created a room installation depicting a scene of a humanoid figure in a kind of self-study lab/room, in the process of building themself. Seated behind a desk, this faceless figure holds up a face and ”looks” at it, ponderingly. There’s also a basket filled with green, disembodied hands (going to hell in a handbasket?), chestfull of faces, odd selfies on the walls and a couple of spare skins hanging from a clothesline.

Exhibited at:
ARKEOLOOGISTA AJATTELUA / ARCHEOLOGICAL THINKING, Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila, Finland.

  • A faceless fabric humanoid figure "looking" at a pinkish silicone face it hods in it's not-hand. On the wall, three portraits.