INN PIECES
By offering disarticulated limbs, abstract organs + tissues Inn Pieces creates a visceral home through multiple artists and their respective flesh dwellings.
Each artist brings their own context alongside the other, creating a nuanced and varied visual conversation amongst each other and the viewer. Inn Pieces itself holds space for the viewer to sit + feel within their own whole-body parallel to the parts that allow their body to take up space in the world.
Why disarticulate the toes? Why abstract the skin? Do these limbs still offer meaning and narrative to the viewer whilst removed from the whole human body?
The body of work begs the viewer to walk amidst the deconstructed body as though it was one room in an unknown home - navigating a room with the context of blood flowing through an artery.
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_ CURATED BY
<<< oliver rinne >>>
_ LOCATION
<<< Emily Carr University of Art + Design >>>
_ ARTISTS
<<< oliver lawrence rinne >>>
<<< niveditha naveen >>>
<<< candice scott >>>
<<< jonah randell >>>
<<< alex chung >>>
<<< (pi) issaree kuptasthien >>>
<<< axel winterburn >>>
CANDICE SCOTT (Interdisciplinary) broadly focuses on social and political issues from geopolitical violence to mental health. Using hands as a communicative and expressive form allows Scott to touch on subjects that can be viewed and interpreted from the level of both the individual and collective experience.
_Instagram = @place_of_c
NIVEDITHA (NIVU) NAVEEN (Interdisciplinary) use of material, form, and tension, explores the act of self-harm and suicide. Her works serves as a reminder of the harsh realities that are often concealed from public view. The installation invites the viewer to experience the space as if they were witnessing the aftereffects of a lived scene.
_Instagram = @nivu.naveen
JONAH RANDELL (Interdisciplinary Design) exploring multiple mediums, Randell focuses on interior design with influences from the human body’s shape within his ceramic practice and how it interacts with his work through his interior design of various geometric shapes and synthetically pleasing textures.
_Instagram = @dangerrandell
PI (ISSAREE) KUPTASTHIEN (Interdisciplinary) using the visceral body in conjunction with domestic objects, Kuptasthien explores the complex and vulnerable relationship of oneself with the body. By altering the body in uncanny forms, her works aim to celebrate the beauty in the grotesque, evoking disgust and discomfort, while at the same time a sense of comfort and acceptance.
_Instagram = @issareekptn
ALEX CHUNG (Sculptural Ceramics) is interested in the interruption of spaces in objects by living beings. Chung is drawn to the transformative and spontaneous nature of ceramics. Using a variety of techniques, forms, and surface finishes in his ceramic practice, he enjoys the unpredictability of atmospheric firings, finding beauty in what the ceramic object picks up and leaves behind as it goes through the intense change.
_Instagram = @24864.azjwc
AXEL WINTERBURN (Interdisciplinary Sculpture) focusing on explorative sculpture, Winterburn explores various emotional ranges and relationships through both the human and animal figure with a gentle sense of viscera in each piece - humanizing the animal and animalizing the human.
_Instagram = @mixed.pix.art
OLIVER RINNE (Interdisciplinary) works in multiple mediums depicting the human body in multiple forms, both figuratively and abstractly. They use the human body as a vessel to articulate and process their trauma, grief, and hope as a Queer individual with varied trauma experiences from both religion + familial figures.
_Instagram = @orangerines_