ERUPTION
limestone, Bryum capillare moss, apple tree branches, ants, aphids, millipedes, insect eggs, fungal and micro-organisms
70 x 130 x 100 cm
stone: 60 x 40 x 40 cm
CURATED BY ANNA PETROVA
VYKSA AIR
2021
I am often overtaken by visions of trees crawling out of my body, out of my arm, neck, and hip. I guess I associate the human body and the body of a tree. In this work I imprint an idea that a flowerbed or vase is a sprawling monster, a disturbing menace of the forest, devouring the abandoned country field, changing both the landscape and its memories of it. The procreation – an act of exuding a new body outwards has exploded and reached out: you can not ignore it anymore.
The eruption, of course, combines geological, hysterical, and coprological connotations. The physical effort that is put into working with a stone ejected from a quarry affects both the muscles and the shape of a newly formed quarry. Pressure and even aggression as a tool of stonework remind me of Louise Bourgeois' advice to represent aggression in sculpture rather than in the family relations. So overcoming the hysterical, pulling out the natural, the woody is also represented.
