Bleurgh
Silicone, wire. Site-responsive - x3.
8cm x 4cm x 2cm approx.
The tongue-shape is a direct reference to a part of the body which is inside but can be stuck out. Expanding to the walls or the doors, these ‘tongues’ are active in describing permission and entry, punk-ish and childish rebellion. Just as its presence makes the substrate into a body, its life is contingent on the thing to which it has been attached, giving it a parasitic quality. As objects, audience tend to touch them when they think no-one is looking, which is immediately rewarded with an intimate and fairly disgusting feeling.
This colossal apparatus
Plasticine, photography
An attempt to try to steal some of these statues’ energy or charge by (simultaneously) cloning and concealing their noses, using plasticine. While at first glace it may seem childishly rebellious, it is also intended as a democratising and Promethean gesture. The title comes from Midnight’s Children: “this colossal apparatus which was to be my birthright, too. Doctor Aziz’s nose … established incontrovertibly his right to be a patriarch.”