The installation I am analysing is the Cement Eclipses Project. This consists of Cordal’s miniature cement figures which are
placed areas where they can easily be overlooked by passersby. As I am hoping
to develop my work on “loneliness”, the unnoticed effect of his sculptures will
link into my work.
“SĄSIEDZI”.
Isolated in the modern outdoors. Lodz, Poland. June 2015.
In this
installation, Cordal has used cement to create a miniature sculpture (approx.
15cm height) of what appears to be a business man or politician. He is wearing
a grey suit with a blue tie and looks about aged 40-60. He is standing on a
rusted metal balcony suspended on a plain beige wall with what appears to be a
pipe to the right of him. The man is stood with his legs closed and appears to
look nervous or glum as he holds his mobile phone.
I believe
Cordal to have placed a minimal amount of items in the installation to draw
focus on the man, which contradicts the reason why his sculptures are so small;
to be unnoticed. The colours used in the installation are of very dull and
plain colours. Nothing catches your eye which may be the aim of the artist. I
believe this piece to be a reflection on our relationship with the outdoors due
to the use of new technology. The new modern outdoors is linked more with
virtual or pretend spaces than with their physical counterparts. The man is on
his own, but is still connected to the world with the one object he is holding;
his mobile phone. To me, this shows how never before have we been so connected
to one another (through technology) at the same time as being so physically
isolated.
This figure
is part of an installation including many other figures alike him. All of which
are standing alone on a balcony, holding a mobile phone. This really emphasises the message that
society has become a place of no physical communication and interaction, but a
place of just virtual communication. This makes me feel that we, as
individuals, are extremely lonely beings and that technology has replaced the
human warmth of company and interaction.I hope to use sculpturing in my work to
create lonely figures alike Cordal’s.
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