Aft’s inverted sides are simultaneously viewable. A thin layer of bronze separates the excavated spaces that present machined topologies. Employing digital techniques in combination with traditional casting methods, the work reflects both organic and engineered concepts.

Sayal-Bennett works across drawing, projection, and sculptural installation. Whether using stencils in drawings on paper, or computer modelling software to design sculptural works, Sayal-Bennett’s body is always working in conjunction with material or technological apparatus, so the tools, rather than being passive, have agency within the work. Her practice is considered a cybernetic system that evolves through a process of human-material engagement and feedback: works emerging from a hybrid agency that is composed of both human and non-human elements.

Balanced on a tall concrete plinth, this elegant bronze explores the slippages, incompatibilities and resistances that occur when rendering digital, virtual drawings into physical form.

Amba Sayal-Bennett (b.1991) lives and works in London. She received her BFA from Oxford University and her MA in The History of Art from The Courtauld Institute. She was awarded her PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths and has published her practice-based research with Tate Papers. Amba is a co-founder of Cypher Billboard, an artist-run public program of site-specific billboard artworks and off-site projects based in London. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in Visual Culture at UWE Bristol. Select solo exhibitions include: A Mechanised Thought, indigo+madder, London (2020); Every Line Makes a Cut, Carbon12, Dubai (2019); Diffraction Metis, Yve Yang Gallery, Boston (2016); and Deft Nodes, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (2016). Select group exhibitions include: Modern Relics, FOLD, London (2022); Tomorrow 2021, White Cube, London (2021); 5th Edition, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough (2021); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021); ABSINTHE §2, Collective Ending, London (2019); Espacio, Luz y Orden, José de la Fuente, Santander (2019); A World In Vertigo, Brunel Museum, London (2019); As You Become, Exhibit 320, Delhi (2018); ROYGBIV, Kate Werble Gallery, New York (2018); and Old Rope, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2014).