:ASSEMBLE ME

It seems that many artist who collect stuff would made a sculpture or an installation as their outcome while others would selectively put those things together as a whole collection.

They reminded me that, in which way to assemble your collection is worthy to consider: reform, combine, pile up or display? Because different combination would convey very differently.

Here, I like how Barlow assemble these sculptures after reforming them. They are individual sculptures, but in the same time, they interact with each other in the room and telling story together when you walking around them and view them as a whole. There is a rhythm within this room!

Belli entitled this work as Broken Column’ to refer Frida Kahlo’s, where she depicted herself wearing a steel corset with a broken marble column in place of her own damaged spine. Belli’s layered corsets suggests the collective pressures and enduring inequalities that women face in patriarchal society.

I like how Belli reformed corsets into spine. It appears to me as a quite powerful sculpture ,although it was made from daily objects. It seems less familiar and as a female, by only looking at it, I can feel the sense of tightened and the pressure as well as the inequalities she is expressing.