SANDRA LAPAGE: THE EMERGENCE OF UNCONSCIOUS
Art Market|Issue #50 August 2020
I create sculptures from trash and discarded materials that are often malleable and even wearable and address a series of environmental and behavioral issues.
SANDRA LAPAGE
SANDRA LAPAGE: THE EMERGENCE OF UNCONSCIOUS

These sculptures unfold into installations, photo-performances, and photographs.

Sharp garments for desperate shamans: portrait in aegis dress C-print. 44x32 c. 2020

Sandra Lapage © All rights reserved.

Control is an illusion, and through the work, I exercise the acceptance of what recycled and everyday materials reveal, from accidents to new processes. The vital materiality of quotidian objects is my starting point and leads me to a reevaluation of the dichotomy between life/ inanimate, human/nature. I believe that a shift in the hierarchy can result in a greener approach to self, culture, and nature.

In the emergence of the unconscious, I am interested in the appearance of primal forms, remnants of timeless myths, and ceremonial objects.

Sharp garments for desperate shamans: portrait in cage dress and mask. C-print

(Sculptures: recycled materials (aluminum), copper wire and staples). 40x50 cm. 2020. (Detail)

Sandra Lapage © All rights reserved.

In this sense, I refer to Joseph Beuys' shamanic practice: by limiting the presence of consciousness and the censoring ego in the work, I hope to channel essential poetry. My work is made of impurity, error, failure, frustration, insubordination, excessiveness, and organic accumulation.

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