Eva Gold's "ROOMS AVAILABLE" is a minimalist sculpture featuring a horizontal, elongated red form with a textured surface that casts a subtle glow. The piece suggests a luminescent monolith, perhaps referencing a motel sign, and evokes a sense of unease through its stark simplicity. Gold employs found objects and cinematic aesthetics to elicit tension and latent threat. The work engages with themes of power and desire, drawing on American cultural mythologies and capitalist structures to explore the spectacle and control surrounding bodies. ...
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. ...
