BAT-AMI RIVLIN
Artist Statement
When does a sofa turn into a collage of foam, fabric, and wood? How many actions does it take to make an old mattress unrecognizable? I construct ‘bodies’ out of scavenged and surplus objects, home appliances and other common products. I’m interested in investigating these objects as “flesh”, exposing their inner structural configurations and fillings. In altering these materials, I follow the object’s form and utility, reconfiguring its intended use into colliding functions. In their failed attempts to perform their use functionality, the objects become amalgamates of things, assemblages of fragmented utilities, unraveling in form and material as they perform their broken practical purposes.