hidden meanings, dualities and
absurdities within a subversive vision. Pestaille's unique
vision combines beauty and horror in equal measure as she
interweaves a dialogue between past and present, producing
characters that could have existed in fairy tales and legends
alongside hybrids of horror movies and surrealist symbolism.
Hannah Plumb is known for her sculptures that recall Old Master
genres. Plumb is particularly concerned with animism, that is
the human tendency to project life onto inanimate objects. To
this end she casts from sex dolls, thus creating a distinctive
dialogue between the baseness of low end sex toys and the
elevated aesthetic of busts and reclining nudes from the High
Renaissance and Classical periods. Recalling the Venus de Milo,
Plumb's most recent piece is a limbless and headless torso which
is intended to focus the viewer on the purity of the female
form.
Jo Whittle borrows from various sources throughout art history
and combines these elements with places and landscapes that she
has herself experienced. |
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