Double Negative (Suspended)
2012
granite, cement grout, steel, absent latex
8 x 72 x 8 inches, suspended from the ceiling, height as per site
Unique

Shadow of a Double Negative
2012
digital photograph, reused latex mold bits
28 x 90 x 16 inches

This was first commissioned for the Mumbai Pavilion in the 9th Shanghai Biennale.





TEXT

From the Shrinking and Disappearing Series, 2005-present.

The Shrinking and Disappearing series is an examination of the structure of making, especially of making sculpture and space. Often, as in Double Negative, the work utilizes a chosen form for a mold that with each successive sculpture deflates and evacuates itself like a paradoxically gravity-bound balloon. The formwork diminishes to a point of failure: eventually, it forms nothing. Sometimes the process eliminates the task of creation, concentrating instead on the processes involved, drawing attention both to the urge to make, to unmake, and to eliminate.





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Dismantling, 2017
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Echo of the Inside, 2011
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