Oren Pinhassi

Oren Pinhassi’s sculptural installations explore the relationship between human body, nature and architecture. Primarily using plaster and sand for their fluidity and malleability, the artist constructs scenarios at the intersection of the public and private spheres, abstracting domestic furniture into silhouettes, positioned next to those resembling a body or a plant. Pinhassi’s sculptures investigate architecture’s ability to dictate behaviour and separate human bodies – through doors, reception windows, bathroom stalls – alongside the resulting emotive consequences. His tall, monochrome, almost totemic sculptures appear at once human, natural and artificial, or a bizarre marriage of all three. For Pinhassi, such collapse of boundaries and categories “is a form of the erotic”, translated into anthropomorphic fluidity of his erected figures. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities.