By: SOMETHING LIKE A HUMAN

SOMETHING LIKE A HUMAN — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:57:43 +0000

[...] With this body of work Sofo continues with the essential ingredients of his art. A constant dimension of all of his work over the past three years has been a kind of revelation and celebration of the processes – an aesthetic of discovery whereby the processes of observing, conceiving, making, ordering, and presenting continue until the work reaches a definitive state of completion. Most often his materials determine the form of the work, and sometimes the materials are so ephemeral the completion of the work is a forecast of its own destruction. With his fascination for what evolves in front of his eyes, he neither predicts the final character of the work, nor is longevity one of his criteria. The primary pleasure for Sofo is in the discovery of the final form through its processes, and only secondarily whether the outcome is something which will appeal to others. There is also we suspect a kind of perverse pleasure in the (human) body at play. We imagine him looking at his hands and asking himself: “what have I got to work with today? Ah! that looks interesting!” and so the process begins which results in a perfect circle of 5. finger-grease, (paper, finger oil + grime), number 5. in this exhibition. You can see what Charlie has to say about it on the previous post. [...]

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