Becoming a body
5000,00
€
Karla Paredes: "This work was made in 2020 during my first year of my Master studies at AVK/Stjoost Kunstakademie in the Netherlands.
There we have a well equipped metal workshop so I could work intensively with this material. I learned how to weld before so I was ager to explore and deepen my knowledge with this technique and material.
The idea was to work with metal in two different versions. One version should show the hardness of the material as we know it. The other version should show the material in its softness and malleable version.
At that time I was captivated by the conflict of opposites in nature, a belief in reality as a manifestation of an underlying struggle between opposing or contradictory tendencies, elements, or forces.
As in Yin and yang for example, in this philosophy complementary and at the same time opposing forces interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts and the parts are important for cohesion of the whole.
It also occur to me that my bodily engagement in the production of this work had to have these oppose versions. While one work process needed bodily strength and the use of tools to weld and form the material. The other way of working needed only the use of my hands to softly web the wire.
This dynamic of different ways of working brought me to the forms I made. The steel wire was web, doing loops with my fingers which them became twisters that I press until I have flat sections that then were bonded together. While making this I also press my fists to these sections so they became rounded. Here I saw that I could depict again these line of contradictory tendencies in building a form, for example, an open, a close form , a roundness , a flatness, what at the end defines or not the form of many bodies in nature. These then “wanna be” bodies are trapped in this conflict, a state of becoming.
The last and second variation of this work is the construction of the rack for so to say where the first objects that I made with the wire are hanging.
Here I decide to weld 2mm bars of steel in various lengths and angles. The straightness of the steel bars let me think of branches in trees or stem and petiole in plants. I made two elements in this way. This final construction is a complementary and necessary part that sustain the first one and both make a whole work.
“Becoming a body” talks about the complementary and at the same time opposing forces that interact to form a dynamic system.”
There we have a well equipped metal workshop so I could work intensively with this material. I learned how to weld before so I was ager to explore and deepen my knowledge with this technique and material.
The idea was to work with metal in two different versions. One version should show the hardness of the material as we know it. The other version should show the material in its softness and malleable version.
At that time I was captivated by the conflict of opposites in nature, a belief in reality as a manifestation of an underlying struggle between opposing or contradictory tendencies, elements, or forces.
As in Yin and yang for example, in this philosophy complementary and at the same time opposing forces interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts and the parts are important for cohesion of the whole.
It also occur to me that my bodily engagement in the production of this work had to have these oppose versions. While one work process needed bodily strength and the use of tools to weld and form the material. The other way of working needed only the use of my hands to softly web the wire.
This dynamic of different ways of working brought me to the forms I made. The steel wire was web, doing loops with my fingers which them became twisters that I press until I have flat sections that then were bonded together. While making this I also press my fists to these sections so they became rounded. Here I saw that I could depict again these line of contradictory tendencies in building a form, for example, an open, a close form , a roundness , a flatness, what at the end defines or not the form of many bodies in nature. These then “wanna be” bodies are trapped in this conflict, a state of becoming.
The last and second variation of this work is the construction of the rack for so to say where the first objects that I made with the wire are hanging.
Here I decide to weld 2mm bars of steel in various lengths and angles. The straightness of the steel bars let me think of branches in trees or stem and petiole in plants. I made two elements in this way. This final construction is a complementary and necessary part that sustain the first one and both make a whole work.
“Becoming a body” talks about the complementary and at the same time opposing forces that interact to form a dynamic system.”
Author: 1
lwh: 1700x1000x750 mm
Weight: 5700 g
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