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Jack Scollard

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Jack Scollard lives and works in Dublin. Their practice is concerned with exploring themes of monumentality, the body and ideas of the anti-monument. The process underpinning this body of work is designed to visually interrogate what it means for images to be extracted, reproduced and reappropriated. As reinterpretations based on a series of graphite drawings of outdoor gym equipment, the sculptural works are conceived as frivolous provocations of the logic that reframes and promotes the body as a site of labour, in which health is a commodity to be earned.

As well as this, they are to be considered as a mimicry of the body itself. Encased by a fleshy gold paint, these light but rigid plaster frames represent speculative endoskeletons or abstracted embodiments. Their eery mid-air suspension connotes the modes of display of the deceased in natural history museums, perhaps implying that they are relics; monuments to our bodily decay.

Stretch and Squeeze floor

Stretch and Squeeze floor

Talus (detail)

Talus (detail)

Ilium

Ilium

Sacrum

Sacrum

Talus

Talus

Lumbar

Lumbar

Manubrium III

Manubrium III

Ilium (Tome)

Ilium (Tome)

Tempus

Tempus

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