Fuse

Anna Gillespie, 2022

unique, plaster

POA

Fuse, is composed of sections of body casts taken from the members of the RSS Southwest zoom group. The sculpture acts as a counterpoint to the extreme physical isolation we all  felt during lockdown and takes our relationships with each other from the digital sphere into to the physical. It is also a celebration of the beauty and reality of human bodies. Despite the casts being individual imprints, they have become abstracted to reveal the underlying similarity of being made of flesh. These biomorphic forms attempting to capture inner experience as opposed to outer appearance and celebrate our communality as human beings. 

“Those regular zoom calls were an incredible source of support, I think, for many of us and I wanted to transform this virtual support into real contact with these other people with whom I felt so close.”

There is something of the Elgin marbles, or The Hand of God in this piece.  It, at once, feels both contemporary and classical, beautiful yet shocking.  Subversion, hope, beauty coming from trauma, there are many emotions elicited in the triptych which leads to seeing new detail every time one looks.