Corps empilés

2022
85 x 164 x 50 cm, PU-Foam

Corps empilés is a readymade sculptural object with typical wooden bedside tables from the 1970s (a symbol of bourgeois interiors and private intimacy) - cast in PU construction foam, a coarse, industrial material.
A radical de-functionalization is taking place: The everyday object loses its original usability and is transformed into a new, sculptural form.

On the one hand, the title Corps empilés ironically refers to the unstable, amorphous effect of the foam material; on the other, it evokes physical associations, perhaps a vulnerability or a kind of physical deformation.
The work plays with contrasts: hard and soft, private and public, artisanal and industrial. The PU foam, actually an “invisible” building material, becomes a visible, form-giving skin here.

Photo © Thomas Andenmatten Brig, Ch