Josephine Baker

Every tree hides a forest (2), 2021104.5 x 38 x 7.5cmSign in to view price

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Material

debris netting, plywood (from reclaimed hoarding boards), aluminium sheet

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a striking visual composition. The central element is a soft, abstract shape in shades of grey, evoking the form of a mountain or cloud. This silhouette is framed by a vibrant, serrated yellow border, creating a dynamic contrast. The overall effect is a playful yet meditative interplay of form, color, and texture. The artist's unique approach, blending traditional textile techniques with a modern, minimal aesthetic, suggests an intention to explore the interplay between the natural and the manufactured. This piece invites the viewer to contemplate the relationship between the organic and the geometric. ...

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Artist

Josephine Baker

B.1990, British

Josephine Baker (b. 1990, London, UK) completed her undergraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012, and her postgraduate in 2017 at the Royal Academy Schools, London.  For Josephine, making sculptures is like writing alternative physical stories to those with which we fabricate our world. Industrially-processed and altered almost beyond recognition, the materials she uses are reconfigured and reimagined, in a challenge to the capitalist trajectories that have produced them. In reclaiming the depiction of landscape and natural phenomena from its cooption into imperialist narratives, different realities are allowed to take shape. ...