Emma Hart
41 3/8 x 99 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.
Further images
The viewer encounters bold red fingers with black fingernails thrusting up from the ground, framing the vista behind. The artist’s meaning is ambiguous, however, as this could also be interpreted as a rebuff, shyness or even a despairing head in hands.
Hart’s emotional honesty aims to disrupt the smooth and seamless visual language of digital culture by injecting her real visceral experiences into the materials, allowing them to pierce our senses and unsettle, through combinations of scales and media.
In this work, the picket-like structure encourages trespass, where two hinged ceramic components are linked in an open embrace, via a chestnut wood support. One side of the work is cold painted, and the other left untreated to emphasise the heavily etched whorled surface.
Exhibitions
6th Edition, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, UK (2022)
