This contemporary artwork features an abstract, sculptural stool composed of geometric shapes and organic forms. The predominant colors are muted shades of green, gray, and black, creating a sense of depth and movement through the interplay of light and shadow. The asymmetrical design and distorted, fragmented shapes suggest a surreal, almost cubist-inspired interpretation of the human figure. The artist's intention appears to be exploring the relationship between the natural and the constructed, challenging traditional notions of form and function in furniture design. ...
Saelia Aparicio’s multidisciplinary practice – which spans sculpture and assemblage, large-scale drawings and paintings, videos and installations – is speculative by nature and involves the construction of fictional, liminal worlds. The hybridised bodies within this universe often represented as line drawings on walls or rendered as colourful, free-standing sculptures, are ethereal, uncanny, and almost human. Embodying both utopia and dystopia and blurring the separation between the two, these characters are contorted into the shape of seats or adorned with sprawling plants, lights and mouth-blown glassware. In addition, Aparicio subtly discusses the climate and housing crises, invasive species – both human and otherwise – and pollution. Her work invites the viewer to imagine alternative futures, at once wholesome, generative, and thoroughly catastrophic. ...
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