Eva Gold's sculpture "24/7" features a vertically oriented, glowing rectangular form with a textured surface, predominantly in a warm orange hue, evoking industrial or minimalist aesthetics. The piece's simplicity in shape contrasts with its complex material texture, suggesting hidden narratives. Employing a style that merges contemporary minimalism with a cinematic approach, the work provokes thoughts on presence and absence. Gold's use of light and material invites contemplation on continuous cycles and societal expectations, reflecting her interest in the interplay between power and vulnerability within capitalist constraints. ...
Eva Gold (b. 1994, Manchester) is a British visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, and moving image. Her work is united by a cinematic sensibility and a precise, often fetishistic use of materials—bone, steel, carved soap, leather, vulcanised rubber—arranged to evoke tension, intimacy, and unease. Often suggesting fragmented narratives or withheld scenes, Gold invites the viewer to consider what lies just beyond the frame, conjuring a sense of illicitness or latent threat.
Found objects, imbued with their own histories, and sensory triggers like scent are recurring elements in her installations, which frequently present bodies in parts—absent, dismembered, or ghosted through hanging garments. Themes of power, violence, and desire move through the work, often framed by the structural constraints of capitalism. References to American cultural mythologies—particularly cinema—underscore her exploration of spectacle, control, and the body’s role within both. ...
