Fiona Campbell, Tongue, 2019
Recycled & found materials: old clothes died with avocado pits, foam, sponge, copper wire, steel, wax, twine, blankets, duvets, pillows, cushion, towels, wool, leather, other fabric, plastic, rubber, thread
Flesh, organ, waste, body, violence: the huge sculptural tongue, fragile and exposed, activates its space. Revealing the labour and handmade nature of it, Tongue is like a big wounded body, a vulnerable softness juxtaposed against the hardness of its prop, repulsive but seductive. The labour-intensive process of my work - weaving, wrapping, sewing - is a form of suturing, a cathartic healing, an attempt to repair in response to world destruction. Tongue confronts uncomfortable environmental topics related to human imposition, incarceration and loss of freedom: factory-farming, plastic oceans, animal suffering and extinctions.
Flesh, organ, waste, body, violence: the huge sculptural tongue, fragile and exposed, activates its space. Revealing the labour and handmade nature of it, Tongue is like a big wounded body, a vulnerable softness juxtaposed against the hardness of its prop, repulsive but seductive. The labour-intensive process of my work - weaving, wrapping, sewing - is a form of suturing, a cathartic healing, an attempt to repair in response to world destruction. Tongue confronts uncomfortable environmental topics related to human imposition, incarceration and loss of freedom: factory-farming, plastic oceans, animal suffering and extinctions.