Liley Loh

This work is concerned with issues of an object’s weight, mass, form and volume within a sculptural space. The objects themselves carry a sense of being in transition between matter and form. They sag, bend, and cave-in on themselves, so becoming vulnerable objects on their way to something else. The work carries elements of failure and become, somehow, tragic figures. This work is concerned with issues of an object’s weight, mass, form and volume within a sculptural space. The objects themselves carry a sense of being in transition between matter and form. They sag, bend, and cave-in on themselves, so becoming vulnerable objects on their way to something else. The work carries elements of failure and become, somehow, tragic figures. The sculptures seem to be in negotiation with the space they occupy because of their sense of transition through their goopy, oozy, rough and hard aspects. Some works operate more as sculpture, standing like pedestals, while others resemble objects, like sacks or sunken chairs. Their materials shift between the rough and smooth, hard and soft, sometimes resembling skin or hide. The process involves folding and wrapping something liquid, which in that moment becomes solid. This turning point is contained in the object that forms. As an exploration of a continuum between liquid and solid material, the objects stand or bag as bundles shaped by what they contain internally, but may also become external containers. Once standing in the space and encountered, the work attempts to manifest a physical relationship between bodies and the sculpture’s mass and form.