Sculptural Works, 2016-23
The fixation with the opposing forces of growth and compression took Dudek from photography to the world
of sculpture: in works like Skinscapes one can feel her skin turning into liquid, flowing across the cracks and
crevices of a concrete floor. This work shows skin (as an early embodiment of this organic expanding force) as
fluid matter, and experiments how it reacts to external surfaces and systems of contention.
Dudek's has then gone on to develop works like Stroke I and II to further probe this essential clash. Fluid materials like expanding foam and latex confront rigid materials like concrete and metal.The former outgrows, the later compresses. And there is also the idea of the cast. The container adopting the shape of that what is contained, or conversely: a body leaving an imprint on that which intends to contain it. The irreducible idea of a box: the box as building, and the building as a container of living bodies.
Looking at Skinscapes, one can understand the Filler and Body Recasts series as a progression on the interest of architecture as a second skin, a container for the fluidity of organic forms.The metal grid is the boundary that limits, compresses and regulates. The images of concrete surfaces are also a type of skin, punctuated by a circular orifice denoting an organic form -a nipple, a navel- a casted space that seems strangely familiar. It is interesting to think about how they behave together in this work -the object and the casting- to create a space, a tension between the absence of what was and the tactile evidence that remains.
Dudek's has then gone on to develop works like Stroke I and II to further probe this essential clash. Fluid materials like expanding foam and latex confront rigid materials like concrete and metal.The former outgrows, the later compresses. And there is also the idea of the cast. The container adopting the shape of that what is contained, or conversely: a body leaving an imprint on that which intends to contain it. The irreducible idea of a box: the box as building, and the building as a container of living bodies.
Looking at Skinscapes, one can understand the Filler and Body Recasts series as a progression on the interest of architecture as a second skin, a container for the fluidity of organic forms.The metal grid is the boundary that limits, compresses and regulates. The images of concrete surfaces are also a type of skin, punctuated by a circular orifice denoting an organic form -a nipple, a navel- a casted space that seems strangely familiar. It is interesting to think about how they behave together in this work -the object and the casting- to create a space, a tension between the absence of what was and the tactile evidence that remains.
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Body Recasts I - V
Concrete;
Fetal Fence;
Silicone;
Latex;
Plexiglass;
Steel
Dimensions Variable
Uniques
Body Recasts I - V
Concrete;
Fetal Fence;
Silicone;
Latex;
Plexiglass;
Steel
Dimensions Variable
Uniques
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Skinscapes
Pigmented Silicone
Dimensions Variable
Uniques
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Wash Basin I
Iron Antique Wash Basin, Marble, Resin, Pigment, Real Live Mushrooms, Latex
Dimensions Variable
Unique
Wash Basin I
Iron Antique Wash Basin, Marble, Resin, Pigment, Real Live Mushrooms, Latex
Dimensions Variable
Unique
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Bench I & II
Bench I & II
Concrete, Resin, Pigments, Real Live Mushrooms
100x45x45 cm
45x45x45 cm
Unique
100x45x45 cm
45x45x45 cm
Unique
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Strokes I - IV
Concrete, Polyurethane Foam, Pigment, Steel, Security Glass
Dimensions Variable
Uniques
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Bathtubs I & II
Polyurethane Foam, Silicone, Resin Pigment, Found Object
Dimensions Variable
Unique
Polyurethane Foam, Silicone, Resin Pigment, Found Object
Dimensions Variable
Unique
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Aphrodite
Concrete
Dimensions Variable
Uniques
Aphrodite
Concrete
Dimensions Variable
Uniques
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Carpet Hunger (Trzepak)
Concrete Plates, Steel
Dimesntions Variable
Unique
Carpet Hunger (Trzepak)
Concrete Plates, Steel
Dimesntions Variable
Unique
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Fence (Balustrada)
Steel, Latex
Unique
Fence (Balustrada)
Steel, Latex
Unique
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Fillers I & II
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Baryta Archival Paper, Mounted on Aluminium, Steel
100 x 136 cm & 100 x 79 cm
Uniques