Porous Body, 2024


Object |
glass, mirror, earth, copper
150 x 60 x 60cm

‘Porous Body’ (2024) is a sculptural work that results from the artist's ongoing encounter, research, and dialogue with the human form as a receiver, sharer, and gatherer of information. Every living being, whether human or non-human, exists in this world both as an individual microorganism and as a component of various macro-organisms. These macro-organisms range from the entire human race inhabiting our planet to smaller communities like workplaces or families. ‘Porous Body’ thereby explores different form- and material-aspects of the human experience. Antennas, cast in the shape of sensory organs, reach like roots towards the soil. Glass and mirror funnels open on all sides, collecting information like branches. The middle, the trunk, the gut of the sculpture, consists of earth-made vessel shapes; all connected by hollow veins of soft copper.