Cold Connection (A) and (B), 2024
Work in two parts, each measuring approx. 6.0 × 3.0 × 2.0 inches
Sculpture studies showing with Café Forgot at The Salon by NADA and The Community.
Thursday 17th October - Sunday 20th October 2024. 30 bis Rue de Paradis, 75010 Paris, France
Works POA: sales@noagency.nyc
Artist statement:
Cold Connection A and B are two sculptural studies crafted from nickel-plated bronze and sterling silver, inspired by the shapes of horn bugles.
The sculpted forms draw inspiration from various historical and functional uses of horns. Horns, in their many forms, have long served as objects for communication, healing, and channeling. From the playful simplicity of can phones to the structured utility of horn bugles used to amplify sound, these shapes are rooted in the idea of connection and transmission. Additionally, the sculptures reference the traditional bloodletting horns used in Finnish saunas, where the horn was both a tool of healing and a symbol of the flow between the body and its surroundings. Horns are also inherently forms of funnelling, concentrating and directing not just sound but also energy and matter, making them powerful symbols of both utility and abstraction.
However, in Cold Connection, these functional associations are deliberately disrupted. The pieces are composed of interwoven materials that allow light, matter, and sound to escape their confines. Rather than focusing or amplifying a single point, these elements disperse, creating a fragmented experience that subverts the horn's traditional roles.
The unfinished wire elements within the sculptures further reflect this theme of incompleteness and tension. They evoke the idea of work-in-progress forms, emphasising the interplay between what is formed and what remains open, between what is held together and what is allowed to unravel.
The sculptures explore the formation of distinct bodies that are simultaneously fractured and realised. The forms interact with one another as though in conversation, yet the very process that shapes them undermines their function as communicative objects. The arrangement of materials is precise, but the interplay of theory and matter results in a complex relationship, where the pieces fail to establish a clear call-and-response between their separate bodies.
