’s new gallery at 475 Tenth Avenue, the artist installed two major works which polarize mass and energy.

(2012), comprised of a 10 tonne iron block and a crouched body formed of smaller blocks backed up against it, plays on the relationship of body to architecture. 

 (2012) is a drawing in space. A straight, 6 millimetre mild steel line becomes a twisting helix as it maps the inner space of a prone body, referencing the connective structures of electricity and implying a transmission that passes from body to city. In its reduced but rigorous geometry of 90-degree bends, the work both uses and escapes from the grid.

Both works that were displayed are catalysts for proprioceptive awareness, which rendered the volumes of the new gallery into a reflexive chamber where the viewers’ passage through space and confrontation with mass, is activated and registered.

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, 2012, cast iron, 88 × 47 × 57.5 cm. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

 2012, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 25 × 222 × 57 cm and 

 2012, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 25 × 222 × 57 cm. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

, 2012, cast iron, 213 × 64 × 54 cm and 

, 2012, cast iron, 186.5 × 46.5 × 42 cm. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

, 2012, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 132.5 × 49.5 × 59 cm. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

Clinch, 2012, cast iron, 189 × 45 × 59 cm and 

, 2011, cast iron, 81 × 62 × 72 cm. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

, 2012. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

, 2012, cast iron, 213 × 64 × 54 cm. Photograph by Jason Wyche, New York.

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