The artwork presents a striking minimalist composition featuring geometric shapes and contrasting colors. The predominant elements are abstract chess pieces in black and white, arranged on a modular platform with geometric shapes in shades of brown. The overall design conveys a sense of balance and order, highlighting the interplay of form, volume, and negative space. The piece likely explores themes of strategy, duality, and the interaction between different elements within a structured system. The artist's precise and deliberate approach to materials and composition suggests an interest in exploring the aesthetics of modernist design and its philosophical underpinnings. ...
Sandra Val is a sculptor who brings an extraordinary dimension to ordinary objects. Working with materials such as porcelain, brass, wood and textiles, Val will replicate everyday items such as chess pieces, doorknobs or vases. The material used to replicate these forms usually differs from their usual construction, and sculptural or architectural fragments are added to the composition. The resultant forms vaguely resemble the original object, but the material and compositional choices cloud any sense of clarity. Val cites her interest in the role of memory, and how it transforms our perception of time and space. This fascination with recollection can be found in this troubling and altering of recognisable things within Val’s work. In her own words “My research starts from a liminal state where pieces of tradition and present converge that I myself transmute and redefine, creating stories and new dialogues that speak to us of time and space”. This interest in familiar objects echoes the sculptural style of Claes Oldenburg, or a more contemporary reference could be the work of Rachel Whiteread. ...
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