Variations of white solids II
Künstler/in
Brishty Khatun Alam
(geb. 1988 in London, Großbritannien)
Date2018
ClassificationsObjekt
MediumExpanded Polystyrene, Spachtelmasse
Dimensions90 × 70 × 50 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28532
DescriptionBrishty Alam works knowingly with slippages between scientific models (chemical structure, properties, composition, reactions) and what we might call social, cultural, political or economic processes. She reanimates these models in unexpected contexts, both undermining and reappraising the usefulness of a universalising gaze, such as that of Western science. Variations of White Solids (2018) consists of three sculptures, made from Styrofoam and white putty, that recall the glass vessels of the laboratory. It remains impossible to determine their contents or what precise function their shapes refer to, while the title insists on the generic, though arcane outputs of scientific endeavour. Disconnected from the usual discursive framework of the laboratory, these objects bear witness to the constructedness of the scientific context, without which certain ideas are left suspended in mid-air. The works offer a basis of her sculptural investigations into shape, dimensionality, material and transcultural semiotics. They are in between states of transition, existing on an axis of continued reaction.– Edited extracts from ‘If we are to hold water’ by Miriam Stoney (2021)
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erworben 1983
