Lucy and Jorge Orta
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Work from their oeuvre.
“Her sculptural work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, such as communication and identity. Lucy uses the media of sculpture, public intervention, video, and photography to realize her work. Her most emblematic artworks include Refuge Wear and Body Architecture (1992–98), portable, lightweight, and autonomous structures representing issues of survival. Nexus Architecture (1994–2002) is a series of participative interventions in which a variable number of people wear suits connected to each other, shaping modular and collective structures. When recorded in photography and video, these interventions visualize the concept of social links. Urban Life Guards (2004–ongoing) are wearable objects that reflect on the body as a metaphorical supportive structure.” – via Studio Orta