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Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice
Fallen things is an exhibition of sculptural objects and accompanying text that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, Su...
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| author | Chambers, Kerry Lee Maria |
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| description | Fallen things is an exhibition of sculptural objects and accompanying text that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, Surrealist object theory, and the generative potential of the matrixial effect to examine how these conceptual and practical motifs manifest in contemporary artistic practices. Using a wide range of source images in the written component and working with casting, carving and assemblage; I explore how gravity, temporal moments of contact, and subtle material juxtapositions cultivate a tactile dialogue between materiality and form. Nestled in the grey area between abstraction and figuration, and drawing on Barbara Baert's analysis of material tensions between cloth and skin, wound and womb, material and psychological; this body of work delineates a sculptural practice that is associative and intuitive, evoking surfaces that hover between exterior and interior. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/42131 Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice Chambers, Kerry Lee Maria Langerman, Fritha Van Der Schijff, Johann Fine art Sculptural practice Fallen things is an exhibition of sculptural objects and accompanying text that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, Surrealist object theory, and the generative potential of the matrixial effect to examine how these conceptual and practical motifs manifest in contemporary artistic practices. Using a wide range of source images in the written component and working with casting, carving and assemblage; I explore how gravity, temporal moments of contact, and subtle material juxtapositions cultivate a tactile dialogue between materiality and form. Nestled in the grey area between abstraction and figuration, and drawing on Barbara Baert's analysis of material tensions between cloth and skin, wound and womb, material and psychological; this body of work delineates a sculptural practice that is associative and intuitive, evoking surfaces that hover between exterior and interior. 2025-11-06T12:31:18Z 2025-11-06T12:31:18Z 2025 2025-11-06T12:28:03Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters Masters http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42131 en eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice |
| title_full | Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice |
| title_fullStr | Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice |
| title_short | Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice |
| title_sort | fallen things delineating veil wound womb through sculptural practice |
| topic | Fine art Sculptural practice |
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