Hold, 2017, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy
"Hold" uses the body to produce artwork and has a durational performance element and it investigates how the body responds weighted objects over time.
Working in sculpture and printmaking, van der Linden and Mello explore the ambiguous process of recording the relationship between gravity and the corporeal. Combining found objects and traditional printmaking and sculptural materials and methods parts of the human anatomy are duplicated. Identifiable shapes and curves, captured in printed and sculpted mediums, mimic veins, ligaments and blood vessels.
A deconstructed body, produced through directly casting and printing from the body, and examining how performing these processes force the body to experience weight, pressure, trauma and stress.
"Hold" uses the body to produce artwork and has a durational performance element and it investigates how the body responds weighted objects over time.
Working in sculpture and printmaking, van der Linden and Mello explore the ambiguous process of recording the relationship between gravity and the corporeal. Combining found objects and traditional printmaking and sculptural materials and methods parts of the human anatomy are duplicated. Identifiable shapes and curves, captured in printed and sculpted mediums, mimic veins, ligaments and blood vessels.
A deconstructed body, produced through directly casting and printing from the body, and examining how performing these processes force the body to experience weight, pressure, trauma and stress.