Tenuous
This series of work began in Germany in 2011 and is continued to date. The sculptures are very slender and fine and embody an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as though the sculptures make the air around them tremble, perhaps from being pierced. Stuart J Young’s series of tabletop-sized sculptures is made from papermache and formally explores movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. This cycle of work is informed by observations of plants, animals and humans in their relational, somatic ‘dances’ and gestural interactions. There is something vulnerable about these works as they seem to allude to the fragility and temporality of nature and life, perhaps to an impending demise. The series can be envisaged as models for life-size sculpture or utopian architecture.
All images, ideas and texts © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024