Stuart J Young in the Project Space at Pfaelzer Hof Artist Residencies
Tenuous
This series of work began in Germany around ten years ago. The sculptures are slender and delicate, embodying an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as if their forms make the air around them tremble, perhaps as though pierced.
The Tenuous tabletop-sized sculptures, made from papier-mâché, formally explore movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. They are informed by observations of plants, animals, and humans in relational, somatic, and gestural interactions. There is a sense of vulnerability in these works, alluding to fragility, temporality, and perhaps an impending demise. Tenuous has been envisaged as models for life-size sculptures or utopian architectures.
They complement still points in installations of Eila Goldhahn’s MoverWitness dance films.