Following the last WIP in November I spent some time editing the studio.
I took both life-size paper cutouts that I had made during the summer made them into a pair. The performative installation I wrapped up in the pieces and the ritual of wrapping the pieces around myself and themselves.
Barely Touching (2020)
300gsm paper, spray paint, staples 2m x 2m
Barely Touching (2020)
300gsm paper, spray paint, staples 2m x 2m
The left-hand piece is glancing the floor and unraveled at the back. The right-hand piece is tightly held together and more rigid and engages with the floor positively. As a pair they are saying to me they come from the same place but are different. They are similar yet not. They are familial yet unable to join. I had been researching pairs and doubling looking at Vija Celmins and Roni Horn.
Here are a few images I took of the studio before I left it on the 7th December. From left to right:
Back bone where she left it (2020)
Chicken wire and fishing line
500mm x 1500mm
Her body was in tatters her mind elsewhere (2020)
Pink cartridge paper, fishing line, aluminium wire
2000mm x 400mm x 400mm
The body pressed and folded but still limp (2020)
Paper and tape
1600mm x 500mm
Her body was in tatters her mind elsewhere
Pink cartridge paper, fishing line, aluminium wire
2000mm x 400mm x 400mm
I reworked this paper sculpture and hung it in a corner with a plain background. The work is deeply rooted in childhood experience. Seeing Richard Tuttle’s installation of ‘A Treatise on Stars’ (2019) in Beijing really made me realise that I need to give myself permission to allow this work to really be developed.
Wall Drawing no. 46
Aluminium wire, nails, graphite 2000mm x 600mm
This work was made from elements gathered from previous experiments in the studio. I attached aluminium wire and decided to draw around some stencils I had made and create a piece directly on the wall. I have named it after the wall drawing Sol LeWitt made when he discovered Eva Hesse had died. I kind of a homage to them both and creating a ghost of previous work. I used the wire wound and then some unwound, then made into the hanging in the second section of the piece.
Tina Culverhouse 