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My practice includes sculptures and performances that examine interpersonal, intimate relations between bodies. My projects often contain plurality where an object does not exist alone but always in relation to one or more other objects. These objects vividly and formally contrast one another to render a dichotomy of belonging and dis-belonging, togetherness and separation, while remaining perpetually co-dependent and connected.

Fleshy and vulnerable in material, each of the objects appears as a surrogate of the body yet also carries implications of a particular "function" (to be worn, to be held, to be moved) that complicate its relationship with the others. Hence this implication of wearability (or actual wearability) transfers the relationship between objects to that between implied bodies that might use them, rendering the original objects not only as surrogates, but also as subject. My work poses an aporia where a desired nearness never seems to be achieved, which reflects on the relationship of the self to the other within a contemporary landscape of migration, separation, and longing.

Last updated December 2020