Oren Pinhassi

Oren Pinhassi

BornNationalityBased In
1985IsraeliNew York City
Biography

Oren Pinhassi’s sculptural installations explore the relationship between human body, nature and architecture. Primarily using plaster and sand for their fluidity and malleability, the artist constructs scenarios at the intersection of the public and private spheres, abstracting domestic furniture into silhouettes, positioned next to those resembling a body or a plant. Pinhassi’s sculptures investigate architecture’s ability to dictate behaviour and separate human bodies – through doors, reception windows, bathroom stalls – alongside the resulting emotive consequences. His tall, monochrome, almost totemic sculptures appear at once human, natural and artificial, or a bizarre marriage of all three. For Pinhassi, such collapse of boundaries and categories “is a form of the erotic”, translated into anthropomorphic fluidity of his erected figures. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled (Little Shower)
Oren Pinhassi
Untitled (Little Shower), 2021
192 x 41 x 27cm
Untitled (fountain)
Oren Pinhassi
Untitled (fountain), 2021
247.65 x 81.28 x 81.28cm
lovers
Oren Pinhassi
lovers, 2021
254 x 64 x 64cm
The Mourner
Oren Pinhassi
The Mourner, 2021
214 x 76 x 71cm
Untitled
Oren Pinhassi
Untitled, 2021
267 x 57.15 x 67cm
Untitled
Oren Pinhassi
Untitled, 2021
237 x 25 x 49cm
The Walker
Oren Pinhassi
The Walker, 2020
208 x 61 x 46cm
Untitled
Oren Pinhassi
Untitled, 2020
97 x 43 x 15cm
Untitled (Umbrella)
Oren Pinhassi
Untitled (Umbrella), 2020
83 x 103 x 83cm
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