Tenuous
This series of work began in Germany some ten years ago. The sculptures are slender and fine and embody an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as though their bodies make the air around them tremble, perhaps from being pierced.
Tenuous tabletop-sized sculptures is made from papermache and formally explores movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. They are informed by observations of plants, animals and humans in relational, somatic, gestural interactions. There is something vulnerable about these works as they allude to fragility and temporality, perhaps to an impending demise. Tenuous has been envisaged as models for life-size sculptures or utopian architectures.
They compliment still points in installations of Goldhahn’s MoverWitness dance films.
All images, ideas and texts © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024