Pauline Keena
Ireland
The work engages a struggle for language to facilitate the combination of emotion and longing with the formality of articulated sculptural space. The deconstruction of materials embodies the deepest concerns in the work, echoing the essential elements of exploration of the condition of otherness, of abjection. The process of manipulating materials leads to an excavation, an opening up of the body, exposing the viscerality of internal biology, the interiority of the human form, its inner reality, its history of human events.
The ancient and symbolic associations of cloth with the body reinforce the notion of metaphorical remains, the crippling sorrow of estrangement, the discontinuous state of being, the mark of the outsider, the stray.
(Text: heroes + holies catalogue, 2002)
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