“Airbags”
at MOT INTERNATIONAL, Brussels
Opening reception: 3rd June, 2015
Until: 31st July, 2015
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 6 and by appointment
t +32 (0)2 511 16 52
info@motinternational.com
MOT International is delighted to present Airbags, an exhibition of new works by Vanessa Safavi. Inspired by soft sculpture and post-minimalist practices, the artist’s installations make use of pliable industrial materials, such as steel, silicone and bandages, that appear as if in motion between different states—solid, liquid, animated—and evoke biological matter.
Airbags takes as a starting point early experiments that sought to produce reliable data on the human body’s response to sudden, violent forces acting upon it. Inspired by crash test dummies, simulated collisions and NASA tests to prepare astronauts for zero gravity, Safavi’s interest lies in the body as a physical form more than as a social or cultural entity.
The exhibited sculptures, developed from an interest in hybrid forms, attempt to understand the capacity for movement between nature and technology, and question relationships between the body and the machine.
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