Sub.lime
Installation, Human figure, Various materials, 80x160x30cm
SUBLIME, hanging installation, 2004
To construct it I began by making a ‘rayograph’ of my body. A rayograph is a projection or shadow of an object onto photosensitive material. When I had made two projections of my body, the front crossing the profile, I carried on with the sculpture by hanging lead balls corresponding with the most important and recognizable points. Finally, I moved away the rayographs and obtained a very light ‘flying body’, a hybrid between artistic processes and reality.
The shape of the body may be seen through the shadow behind the installation, and this helps the observer to recognize the object in order to make a synthesis of the two sides with a perspective.
Because of the empty space among the balls, it is quite difficult to read the entire shape of the sculpture: passers-by and the ambient architecture interfere with the viewing of the sculpture, so the most appropriate location for the sculpture would be in the sky, with its shadow projected by sunrays onto a passing cloud to act as a screen...
To construct it I began by making a ‘rayograph’ of my body. A rayograph is a projection or shadow of an object onto photosensitive material. When I had made two projections of my body, the front crossing the profile, I carried on with the sculpture by hanging lead balls corresponding with the most important and recognizable points. Finally, I moved away the rayographs and obtained a very light ‘flying body’, a hybrid between artistic processes and reality.
The shape of the body may be seen through the shadow behind the installation, and this helps the observer to recognize the object in order to make a synthesis of the two sides with a perspective.
Because of the empty space among the balls, it is quite difficult to read the entire shape of the sculpture: passers-by and the ambient architecture interfere with the viewing of the sculpture, so the most appropriate location for the sculpture would be in the sky, with its shadow projected by sunrays onto a passing cloud to act as a screen...
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