Rebecca Delange: DREAM SWAMP

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I am interested in articulating the immaterial in the material. The work takes the form of spatially responsive sculptural assemblages and installation that transforms the gallery into an un-hinged reality where desires, fears and secrets are given shape and mesh with the everyday. I aim for my installations to be emotional and psychological, yet playful and absurd arrangements in which the viewer participates in a phenomenological experience.

My work explores themes such as impermanence, fantasy, excess and biological processes such as growth, decay and mutation. I am interested in creating magical and otherworldly spaces in response to the dominance of rationality and science in our current times. In particular I am exploring the ways that anxiety, relating to the fragile, changing and impermanent nature of our bodies, can manifest and is physically and psychologically experienced. Furthermore the work seeks to explore my own anxiety about this.

Central to my practice is an investigation into actions, materials and process that can physically articulate these ideas. Ephemeral and malleable materials, such as wax and plastercine that echo qualities of the body, are used and often reworked and incorporated into new work. These materials retain memory of their previous incarnation allowing the sculptural works to become an indefinable temporal collage of different locations, thoughts and ideas. Processes such as repetition and chance are also employed as a means to disconnect from controlled decisions that I habitually make, generating unpredictable differences and allowing mutations and unexpected outcomes to emerge.

My practice is multi-disciplinary, expanding from drawing and photography into painting, performance sculpture and installation. The interaction between these different sites of production opens up different possibilities and creates tension between the qualities of growth and decay, creation and destruction in the work.

Rebecca Delange

Saturday, 4 April 2009

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