Bonnie Collura Lincoln (+ detail) Vacuum Formed Plastic, Graphite, Wax, Wool, Aluminum, Foam 63 x 182 x 38 cm (25 x 72 x 15 inches)		Bonnie Collura Study for Jesus 2006 Vacuum Formed Plastic, Graphite Powder, Polyurethane, Wax, Aquaresin, Urethane Plastic, Pigment, Wool, Aluminum 58 x 203 x 58 cm (25 x 72 x 15 inches)

Artist’s Statement

As a DJ combines copasetic and differing references to create a string of sounds that are at once familiar and foreign, I try to impart this muti-tiered logic in three-dimensional form.  Greek mythology, renaissance sculpture, biblical stories, fairy tales and pop culture icons are some of the references that launch the framework for a non-linear narrative that can only be completed by the viewers movement through the sculptural space I direct.  Fascinated in how film can distort, pervert, and alter one’s memory through its cyclically and unfolding structure, I make three-dimensional figurative and non-figurative forms operate on this visual manipulative level. Every degree of my sculptures strive to challenge a viewers circulation, encouraging them to move around the sculpture not because that is what they may understand to do cognitively in relation to art viewing, but because that is what they are propelled to do emotionally to become more connected to the gesture and narrative of the sculpture in front of them. While making, what guides a dubious subjective/objective balance is a dance between my head and hands. What results is a space where I freely coalesces multiple points of reference while rearranging them into a new logic. My hope is that each angle of my work poses questions that a viewer can only answer by physically moving in the space that surrounds the sculpture, thus turning the viewer into a collaborator and coconspirator of meaning.

Aeroplastics Contemporary | Rue Blanche 32 Blanchestraat | 1060 Brussels
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