INTERSTITAL SPACES

Interstitial Spaces, Porcelain, wood, and concrete, Installation dimensions variable, 2022

Interstitial Spaces is a sculptural installation that uses disability as a generative framework for reimagining bodily and architectural structures. Rooted in the experience of receiving a connective tissue disorder diagnosis, the project questions what it means to inhabit a body doesn’t always function correctly. The work draws on crip theory to propose instability and variation as forms of structural adaptation, rather than failure. Comprised of undulating, sometimes awkwardly elongated concrete cinderblocks, these forms act as ‘crip objects’ and are not quite functional but not quite useless. These modular pieces are embedded with biomorphic porcelain forms that act as personifications of bodily pain. Within the installation, a cinderblock pierces the wall to create an intentional gaze-narrowing portal that peers from the internal gallery out the outer windows. Residual wooden molds remain visible throughout the installation, emphasizing processes of 'becoming'.

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