Burial
Burial

© the artist, courtesy Konrad Fischer Galerie. Image credit: Nick Turpin, courtesy of Sculpture in the City

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The rough dimensions of the two stretched rocks that make up 'Burial' are approximately the length of an average elongated, horizontal human body. The hollow forms of the rocks, positioned as if in a mourning procession, are similar in form to upturned sarcophagae. The sculpture imagines these sarcophagae as exoskeletons, hollow hard shells made to hold soft bodies whilst they are changing state. The rocks were cast from lumps of concrete the artist collected from London demolition sites as evidence of the changing materiality of the city. Made from Corten steel, their forms appear strangely organic, despite having been produced by the technological and industrial processes of scanning, stretching, milling, and casting.

Sculpture in the City

London

Title

Burial

Date

2016

Medium

sand cast Corten steel

Measurements

H 80 x W 107 x D 237 cm

Accession number

EC2M_SITC_BURI

Acquisition method

on loan to Sculpture in the City, 10th Edition and 11th Edition, 2021–2023

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

The artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie

Installation start date

2021

Installation end date

2022

Access

at all times

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London, Greater London England

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