I Said Rock

Carolina Aguirre

I Said Rock, 2024102 x 82cmSign in to view price
Details
Material
sumi ink, shellac ink, charcoal on wooden panels
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a striking interplay of natural and industrial elements. The visual composition is dominated by the rough, weathered textures of wood and metal, creating a sense of organic decay and industrial deterioration. The central shapes resemble fragments or shards, evoking a sense of fragmentation and impermanence. The muted color palette of grays, browns, and occasional pops of wood grain contribute to the artwork's somber and introspective mood. The artist's use of repurposed materials and their juxtaposition suggests a commentary on the transient nature of human-made structures and the reclamation of the natural world. This piece invites the viewer to ponder the cycles of creation and destruction that shape our environments. ...

Similar Artworks
Cardiac Tissue (Floodplains)
Shaan Bevan
Cardiac Tissue (Floodplains), 2024
46 x 88cm
Tom
Field / Koyó
Tyler Eash
Field / Koyó, 2023
240 x 51 x 33cm
Elon Musk
Tyler Eash
Elon Musk, 2024
32.5 x 24cm
Fairfax Ken
Bex Massey
Fairfax Ken, 2024
100 x 75cm
Tremble Wail For The Whales
Shaan Bevan
Tremble Wail For The Whales, 2022
249 x 174.5cm
Bird ringer
Fingers of a ghost
Gal Schindler
Fingers of a ghost, 2021
180 x 120cm
I don’t remember anything you said to me last night
Isaac Lythgoe
I don’t remember anything you said to me last night, 2022
110 x 155 x 50cm
Cryobank Ben
Bex Massey
Cryobank Ben, 2024
100 x 75cm
Error Gap
Nina Davies
Error Gap, 2024
100 x 40 x 35cm
Landscape, Goated (red)
Sara Knowland
Landscape, Goated (red), 2024
30.5 x 40.5cm
Moon Boy descent to earth
Angela Maasalu
Moon Boy descent to earth, 2024
95 x 121cm
I still dream of Orgonon
Mimosa Echard
I still dream of Orgonon, 2016
22 x 15cm ⌀9cm
When I met my first spiral
Ariana Papademetropoulos
When I met my first spiral, 2019
250 x 200cm
Oxygen Sink
Shaan Bevan
Oxygen Sink, 2024
122 x 86cm
European Bank 628
Bex Massey
European Bank 628, 2024
100 x 75cm
Writ in Water
Gal Schindler
Writ in Water, 2023
112 x 82cm
Carolina Aguirre
Artist
Carolina Aguirre
B.1990, Chilean

Carolina Aguirre (b.1990, Chile) is an Argentinean artist based in London. Carolina graduated with a BA (First Class Honours) in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins and worked in the film industry before transitioning into an interdisciplinary art practice and completing an MA at the Royal College of Art. She is a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award (2021-2023) and the 2022 Kyoto City University of the Arts exchange programme. She has exhibited at Palmer Gallery (London), Thaddaeus Ropac (London), Lismore Castle Arts (Cork), Royal Academy of Arts (London), Fold Gallery (London), and Guts Gallery (London) among others. Upcoming projects for 2024 include a solo presentation with Ruttowski;68 (Paris). Carolina Aguirre’s mythopoetic works question the experience of belonging as it relates to location, nature, and otherness. Belonging is chosen as an embodied and emotional access point to wider themes of environmentalism and identity politics resulting from mobility. The interdisciplinary practice spans painting, installation, sculpture and performance. The painting process, which forms the foundation of the practice, is both archeological and psychoanalytical. On the floor, the painting becomes an environment which is watered, dug, impressed upon and walked around. Attention is given to the quality of natural materials; the mineral sheen of sumi ink, the bodily gloss of shellac, the smokiness of charcoal. Mythical, instinctual, and ambiguous, the paintings tread the line between abstraction and figuration. From afar the works could be aerial landscapes; land as seen from a flight home, or browsed longingly on google maps. They could also be close ups of rock or cross-sections of geological phenomena. Distances and borders are blurred. Body imprints allow for an even closer physical relationship between painting and artist. The imprints are reimagined so that the body disintegrates, expands or transforms. Paintings like ‘Strata’ (2024) or ‘Safe Sediment’ (2024) imagine the body in post-life or post-human futures, whereas ‘I said rock’ (2024), titled after the song Sinnerman as sung by Nina Simone, is a yearning for in-life redemption from the non-human world. In the studio, the imprint leaves a mark on the body, a ‘mancha’, which is documented. The sculptural and installation based work follows a similar use of natural materials and blurring of boundaries. Materials used include earth, hair, human ashes, grass, metal and wood pulp. Most recently, immersive installation ‘Remember, member, ember’ (2024) at Lismore Castle Arts blurs the boundaries between building, location and artwork. Using the remoteness of the The Mill as part of the work itself, the viewer is invited into a calcified environment that feels ‘outside’ of society, suspended both physically and temporally. Time here feels slower. Audio made from the building’s stones is played back, distorted and alive. The sculptures, growing out the ground and into the roof, are somewhere between mineral and organic. Humans have a fragile yet essential relationship to this space; one of the sculptures has a heart-string made of human hair, the walls have traces of human intervention. ...

Carolina Aguirre: Artworks
I Said Rock
Carolina Aguirre
I Said Rock, 2024
102 x 82cm
Huella (humo)
Carolina Aguirre
Huella (humo), 2024
51 x 41cm
Huella (tierra)
Carolina Aguirre
Huella (tierra), 2024
51 x 41cm
Blackbird
Safe Sediment
Carolina Aguirre
Safe Sediment, 2024
123 x 51cm
Unlock Price & Inquiry Access