Courtesy of the artist and the Royal Academy.
Kira Freije
Born in 1985, London, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Overview
Consciously moving between structures of poetry and sculpture, Freije gathers pieces of scrap metal, discarded objects, or offcuts from her studio while simultaneously collecting words or loose phrases jotted down in her sketchbook. She fuses these two crafts together in her installations. Assemblages of steel figures, glass blown lamps, and ruinous forms are scattered through a space with poetic titles binding these concrete constellations through a narrative web. The focus on figure links her ...Read more