CHARLOTTE COLBERT
CHARLOTTE COLBERT
Mastectomy Mammeria, 2019
Foam and plaster
H:290cm x W:130cm x D:130cm
£28000
$39650
£28000
$39650
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The plaster sculpture, a hybrid between a body and a vegetable, stretches towards the sky — a monument to the crushing limitations of the physical but also an ode to...
The plaster sculpture, a hybrid between a body and a vegetable, stretches towards the sky — a monument to the crushing limitations of the physical but also an ode to its beauty, power, resilience and sense of survival. The body as provider, as warrior, as victim, the piece harks back to a possible early imagining of the mother or perhaps on the contrary towards the alienation of one’s body in post-partum. “What is identity but a fragile construction of symbols crashing against external definition?”