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John Summers
The work I make comes from a source that is both literal and fictional, inrelation to the idea of a 'body'. Skin, flesh and bones can be seen assimply material to cut and mould, to sculpt as we have in the past usedclay, marble and wood. I find it unnecessary to ascribe literal meanings tothese works and decide instead to leave them as holding many possibilitiesof identity. I am interested in what can be regarded as disgusting andbeautiful at the same time, imperfections as perfections, to find life insomething dead. Witnessing the gradual approach of death, seen on our skinas it grows, stretches and sags, our desire to maintain the perfection ofchildhood against the odds of passing time. Observing the physicalmanifestations of human history, the ways in which we have manipulated thebody since our days of cave dwelling, in a past so distant we havefictionalised it. Selected Exhibitions: 2005 - 'Stuff Becomes', (artist & curator) Hollow Contemporary
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