The artwork features a dramatic, black sculptural piece with a pronounced curved shape. The composition is dominated by a series of sharp, spiked forms that protrude outward, creating a striking and imposing visual effect. The artist has employed a distinctive technique, using rigid, angular elements to construct an unconventional, asymmetrical form. This sculptural work likely explores themes of tension, aggression, or protection, reflecting the artist's intention to evoke a sense of power and unease in the viewer. ...
Andres Bedoya describes his practice as object and material-based, without relying on conventional terms of sculpture, installation and drawing. Bedoya uses everyday and precious, lasting and ephemeral materials, such as leather, bronze, bananas, orange peels, and scrap metal, to navigate the rich history of the Andean region of Latin America. Treating the objects and their physical as means of storytelling, Bedoya explores the origins of beliefs, rituals and histories from an abstract, biographical perspective. His works depict old-fashioned wooden tables underneath which are attached black, old bananas, thin metal cut into scales of armour, leather sheet pierced by bronze needles. During his 2015 residency at Gasworks, Deboya was studying traditional Victorian hair art, implementing hair into his own practice and continuing to explore the meaningful and historical potential of material objects. The artist’s practice eloquently merges history and the present, cultural and personal remembrance, permanence and decay, beauty and tension, creating unexpected, piercing narratives of memory, loss, conflict and family. ...
