Sebastien Fitch, Phd.

These sculptures, consisting of found objects (broken bits of printers, toys, video cassette recorders, animal bones...) as well as castings from the human body, are a dichotomous contemplation of our increasing reliance on technology, which can be viewed just as easily as a celebration of this ongoing evolution, or on the contrary, as a critique of our increasing dependence on man-made inventions.

 

On the one hand, the mechanics of these sculptures seem to encase the body in an external harness that we can control. Makeup, cell-phones, step-machines, cars, steroids... All of these serve our quest to gain complete control over ourselves and our immediate mental and physical environments.

 

In these sculptures, however, this human/technological interface elicits feelings of unease, not celebration. The colours are dark, dingy and rusting; their patchwork nature – pieces cut off from the rest of the body – is inherently disturbing.

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