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Negative Extension - Prep#1 first level, 2018 (Gallery view) Sculpture

Cred Roy

United Kingdom

Sculpture, Found Objects on Aluminium

Size: 19.7 W x 31.5 H x 19.7 D in

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Imaginary exercise apparatus from the gym. Set of prep to workout until failure* * Performing an exercise until the muscle reaches complete fatigue and “fails” at performing any more repetitions. Part of Palestra, 2018 (installation) - A body of work which explores Body Building(1). Like a double allegory of the work of the artist: the body - to understand «a tool» - and the building - as a site, referencing the space, the architectural and physical construction of any man-made form. Palestra is inspired from Kathy Acker’s essay: Against ordinary language, the language of the body, from 1992 (1). I wanted to picture a parallel between the effort of the athlete and the work of the artist, therefore, I started to sculpt «effort» as it is, a form of physicality. I am rather fond of the idea that effort appears from within its own gesture. A relationship - a reciprocity between the body and the matter which becomes a physical manifestation of the effort through labour. Just like the athlete, the dissatisfaction within the work pushes the artist to burn out, to sacrifice, until an everlasting transformation.

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Sculpture:Found Objects on Aluminium

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 31.5 H x 19.7 D in

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"Over time, the border between life and art has become a vast, desecrated free zone. The world becomes the suitcase - the suitcase becomes the body - the body becomes the material in which the craft is revealed and sucks the life. Living becomes work." The notion is literal: Labor - Translated into a multitude of techniques and formats - Performatives. It sculpts itself, draws itself, realising itself in a physical/dimensional form. The aesthetic is simple, idiomatic, often minimal, which conveys an underlined political and economic statement. DIY kits - found objects and reclaimed materials become poems suggesting "in-between" - Society is concrete, as is its poetry. Born in Marseille - France, live and work in London

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