The Divining Rod

Em Kettner

The Divining Rod, 202124.13 x 6.35 x 3.81cmSign in to view price
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cotton woven around glazed porcelainFrançois Ghebaly
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork depicts two intertwined, organically shaped objects in shades of burgundy and yellow. The composition features intricate patterns and textures, creating a visually striking and tactile experience. The subject matter, while abstract, suggests a sense of growth, movement, and interconnectedness. The artwork's distinctive style and techniques evoke a primitive, handcrafted aesthetic, hinting at the artist's exploration of traditional craft processes and materials. This piece likely reflects the artist's interest in exploring themes of natural forms, symbolism, and the interplay between the organic and the human-made. ...

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Artist
Em Kettner
B.1988, American

Em Kettner’s miniature, figurative sculptures are contextualised by the artist’s experience of muscular dystrophy, intimacy and the fragility of embodied interdependence. She weaves silk and cotton threads onto fragmented porcelain structures, creating tiny beds and colourfully-patterned surfaces, leaving out the limbs and heads of her tiny characters. Whether sickbeds or love-beds or both, the sculptures and their figures reference the physical fragility and mutual support of Kettner’s experience. The miniature scale of her works alludes to votative objects placed on altars as pleas for the relief of pain or illness. Eroticism, religion, joy and ecstasy intertwine in the artist’s delicate figures, challenging the idea of a “normal” body and the hurtful stereotypes about the disability community. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Em Kettner: Artworks
The Swingers
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The Piggyback (Self-Portrait with Adam)
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The Long Night
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The Lemon Drop Dream
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The Cross
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25.4 x 24.13 x 8.89cm
The Divining Rod
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The Blue Mother
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The Blue Mother, 2021
7.62 x 16.51 x 11.43cm
The Sycophant
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The Sycophant, 2019
8.89 x 26.67 x 13.97cm
The Supplicant
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7.62 x 30.48 x 7.62cm
The Orchard
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The Orchard, 2020
15.24 x 10.16 x 2.54cm
The Mirror
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The Mirror, 2020
22.86 x 10.16 x 2.54cm
The Supplicant
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The Supplicant, 2020
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The Mending Bed
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The Mending Bed, 2020
10.16 x 15.24 x 15.24cm
The Lovers’ Quarrel
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The Lovers’ Quarrel, 2020
7.62 x 7.62 x 7.62cm
The Invalid
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The Invalid, 2020
10.16 x 10.16 x 5.08cm
The Prairie Sickbed
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The Prairie Sickbed, 2020
12.7 x 10.16 x 7.62cm
St. Francis and the Flies
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St. Francis and the Flies, 2020
17.78 x 5.08 x 5.08cm
The Pilgrim
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The Pilgrim, 2020
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The Invalids
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The Invalids, 2020
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Settle
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Settle, 2021
16.5 x 14cm
Opening Act
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Opening Act, 2022
12 x 14.5 x 1cm
The Bridge
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The Bridge, 2022
16.5 x 14cm
Hephaestus in the Hollow
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Hephaestus in the Hollow, 2024
38 x 38 x 4cm
Stage Fright
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Stage Fright, 2024
18 x 26.5 x 2.5cm
Fever Dream
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Fever Dream, 2023
13.5 x 12.5 x 2.5cm
The Hereafter
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The Potter (with Peepers)
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The Sleepwalker (Violet Evening)
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The Sleepwalker (Violet Evening), 2025
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Night Bloomers
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Night Bloomers, 2025
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The Sleepwalker (Harvest Moon)
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The Sleepwalker (Harvest Moon), 2025
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The Gardener
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The Gardener, 2025
27.9 x 38.1 x 2.5cm
The Burlesque Patient
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The Burlesque Patient, 2025
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François Ghebaly
Gallery
François Ghebaly
Los Angeles, New York City

Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...

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