Atelier Van Lieshout

Prosthetic

2021

Fiberglass, steel
82 x 64 x 173 cm

This combination of a crutch, a wooden leg and training wheels is too much of a good thing. Individually these prosthetics support the physically challenged, but merged they prove to be wholly ineffective, an obstacle rather than an aid. Prosthetic is a perverse mutation of good intentions and the rationalist drive to always keep improving. It wouldn’t be out of place in a surrealist painting as a symbol of impotence. The sculpture is part of the Atelier Van Lieshout’s series Sacrifice, which presents war and destruction as a maelstrom of human essence, chaos, creativity providing the option of rebirth: new, yet perhaps not so improved.

Prosthetic (2021) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Fake Me Hard, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)

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