To what extent do sculptures accept the limitations – you might say the imprisonment – imposed by architecture, and to what extent do they try to overcome it?

 meditate on the relationship of bodies to buildings. They could be taken as the revenge of the caryatid or telamon – sculpted figures serving as a columns/architectural supports. The component parts are loose and use dead weight as a principle of construction, but rather than offering reinforcement, these works lean on the walls for support. They are ‘reverse caryatids’: rather than supporting the building they are supported by it, prompting questions about our dependency on our second body – that of the built environment.

Big Assembled Blockworks

, 2019, cast iron, 286.6 × 61.8 × 42.2 cm (13 blocks). Installation view, White Cube Masons Yard, 2019. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

Batten

, 2019, cast iron, 275.3 × 61.6 × 65.8 cm (10 blocks). Installation view, White Cube Masons Yard, 2019. Photograph by Theo Christelis © White Cube.

Leave

, 2019, cast iron, 295.2 × 65.1 × 40.1 cm (15 blocks). Installation view, White Cube Masons Yard, 2019.

Slack

, 2019, cast iron, 285.6 × 69.1 × 67.1 cm (11 blocks).

Big Assembled Blockworks

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