Rachel Harrison: Freedom of Form and Objects.

Rachel Harrison is best known for her clumsy looking sculptures (the shape of which not even she can describe, as she intends to make them indescribable) using styrofoam, cement which is then painted with acrylic in whatever way she feels like, completely un-calculated. Her sculptures always interact with objects which is something I aim to do with my work. The title of the piece below left is 'Hoarders' (2012), which is interesting as I have recently learned about Philosopher/ecologist Jane Bennett and she explains her theory using Hoarders. 'EVERYTHING IS ALIVE', Bennett explains, in relation to all matter around us - in the same way hoarders see their collection of things. In this sculpture, colours give it meaning and variation, the form could be suggestive of a 'pile' and the objects could be what is in perspective to the collector at that moment in time. Whilst everything is still thriving in the background, for now we see the foreground- the bin and TV monitor.

"Her work suggests standard categories of modern art—assemblage, construction, readymades—but evades them all, attaining a stalemate between figuration and abstraction."

-The New Yorker