17. Charlotte Colbert
Atomic Marshmallow, 2019
Perspex cube, ceramic with pink flock
20x20x20cm
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Lives and works in London Language, psychoanalysis, socio-political constructions of gender and identity are at the heart of Colbert’s practice. Spanning film, photography, ceramics and sculpture, she questions narrative structures...
Lives and works in London
Language, psychoanalysis, socio-political constructions of gender and identity are at the heart of Colbert’s practice. Spanning film, photography, ceramics and sculpture, she questions narrative structures and storytelling, weaving surreal and fantastical mise-en-scène in a documentarian approach to characters, figures and people. Fiction becomes a way to approach the truth and the most intimate emotions. Straddling the thin line between fine art and film, Colbert’s films have strong philosophical undertones and play on questions of time, space and identity, often dark and surreal with a hint of comedy.
Colbert’s recent ceramic series, including Atomic Marshmallow for Cure3, continues to play with the inversion and subversion of the inside and the outside. Bodily functions and reproductive organs are reimagined through baby pink lacquered and flocked ceramic sculptures of viral cells, breasts and stomachs, as Colbert strikes a material dialogue which shifts our perception of our own physicality and DNA.
www.charlottecolbert.com
Cube image courtesy the artist
Portrait courtesy the artist
Language, psychoanalysis, socio-political constructions of gender and identity are at the heart of Colbert’s practice. Spanning film, photography, ceramics and sculpture, she questions narrative structures and storytelling, weaving surreal and fantastical mise-en-scène in a documentarian approach to characters, figures and people. Fiction becomes a way to approach the truth and the most intimate emotions. Straddling the thin line between fine art and film, Colbert’s films have strong philosophical undertones and play on questions of time, space and identity, often dark and surreal with a hint of comedy.
Colbert’s recent ceramic series, including Atomic Marshmallow for Cure3, continues to play with the inversion and subversion of the inside and the outside. Bodily functions and reproductive organs are reimagined through baby pink lacquered and flocked ceramic sculptures of viral cells, breasts and stomachs, as Colbert strikes a material dialogue which shifts our perception of our own physicality and DNA.
www.charlottecolbert.com
Cube image courtesy the artist
Portrait courtesy the artist