Product Description

Christopher Pearson

MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins 2019

Pigmented plaster cast
Original
35 x 25 x 20cm

"These pigmented plaster casts of spliced sisal rope emerged from my ongoing exploration of how materiality performs itself, not just as a record of the human body’s gestural and sensory capacities, but as a transformative event which plays with the viewer's embodied knowledge and haptic perception.

These sculptures operate by evoking a sense that something ordinarily understood to be soft, shifting and adaptable has been hardened and reproduced, in turn, subverting the flowing, fibrous properties of rope and ossifying its final structure at the time of creating the silicone moulds from which each cast was taken."