WEHE_ ATHR GALLERY_ JEDDAH_ KSA
Collective exhibition curated by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte_ Carwan Gallery
MOTHER CAST_ bronze sculpture
Inspired by the process of casting bronze, this work addresses the mold as a vessel of conception. A bronze sculpture is heavy and eternal, monumental in heft. The mold that produces it is delicate, destructible, temporary and ephemeral; the birth of a bronze sculpture requires the death of its mold.
Here, two interlocking loops were cast in a single ceramic mold; each loop fed molten bronze from its own pouring point. While the ‘mother’ mold held them both, they could never touch: intertwined, but denied contact. It is only once the mold melted away that the loops emerged, locked forever within one other. Always touching, they celebrate the immaterial void that separated them during conception.
