Columns

Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Concrete, textile, metal, latex, mixed media

2024/2025

This second final degree project represents columns. They originate from questions around sculpture and its spatial characteristics. Each column has a different positioning in the exhibition space, sometimes lying down or leaning, on the verge of collapsing, or resting against the wall. This work reflects my interest in material experimentation and understanding physical and sculptural properties. Furthermore, these columns question their initial functionalities: supporting an architectural structure or decorating a space. In seeking to create theoretically stable and unshakeable columns, I wanted to subvert their main characteristics by using concrete, a malleable material, solid but uncontrollable when it comes to not using a mold. The structuring of the material happens empirically and unstably, day after day, by adding other elements such as metal and masses of thread to bind everything together. Like the Creatures presented on the first page, they acquire an anthropomorphism that questions the figurative within an abstract sculpture.