Ophelie Napoli
Reconciling Industry and Nature into a Brief Moment in Time
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MEMORIES OF THINGS I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED (2022) - Concrete, Iron Oxide, Treated Sawn, Hessian, Lichen, Fire, Time - Size Variable.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My practice focuses on the coexistence of organic or random behaviours within and around structural forms. Using post-minimalism as a starting point, I combine artificial materials with chaotic shapes.
My pieces create a confusion between the Man-made and natural, along with an ambiguous power-dynamic between those elements. Indeed, I seek to challenge the Anthropocentric belief that humankind and its material production are separated, if not opposed to, nature. Keeping this in mind, a certain tension between nurture and invasiveness pervades through my work.
Thus, multiplicity and repetition have also always been a part of my process. This action-based element aims to convey a feeling of humility. This process is also a means to reveal layers of time within an object when the same gesture is repeated over and over.
Finally, through destruction and reparation, I reject permanence and embrace the wounds of our collective experience in a context where narcissism and individualism have seeped into conscious minds and conflict is within and around us.
UNTITLED BRANCH (2022)
UNTITLED BRANCH (2022) - Wax, Iron Oxide, Branch , Steel Hook - 1500 mm. (height).
UNTITLED BRANCH (2022) - Wax, Iron Oxide, Branch , Steel Hook - 1500 mm. (height).
UNTITLED BRANCH (2022) - Wax, Iron Oxide, Branch , Steel Hook - 1500 mm. (height).
UNTITLED BRANCH - Wax, Iron Oxide, Branch , Steel Hook - 1500 mm. (height).
MEMORIES OF THINGS I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED (2022)
MEMORIES OF THINGS I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED (2022)- Concrete, Iron Oxide, Treated Sawn, Hessian, Lichen, Fire, Time - Size Variable.
MEMORIES OF THINGS I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED (2022) - Concrete, Iron Oxide, Treated Sawn, Hessian, Lichen, Fire, Time - Size Variable.
MEMORIES OF THINGS I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED (2022) - Concrete, Iron Oxide, Treated Sawn, Hessian, Lichen, Fire, Time - Size Variable.
"SAIL!" (2022)
"SAIL!" (2022) - Canvas, Rope, Iron Oxide Powder, Rain , Time, Hessian, Iron-filled stones, staples, safety pins - Canvas is 2000 x 2000 mm.
"SAIL!" (2022) - Canvas, Rope, Iron Oxide Powder, Rain , Time, Hessian, Iron-filled stones, staples, safety pins - Canvas is 2000 x 2000 mm.
Process shot: "SAIL!" (2022) - Canvas, Iron Oxide Powder, Rain, Time, Hessian, Iron-filled stones, staples, safety pins.
"IT WAS NEVER SAD." (2021)
"IT WAS NEVER SAD." (2022) - Black Wax, Branch, Metal Clamp - 1760 x 400 x 720 mm.
"IT WAS NEVER SAD." (2022) - Black Wax, Branch, Metal Clamp - 1760 x 400 x 720 mm.
"IT WAS NEVER SAD." (2022) - Black Wax, Branch, Metal Clamp - 1760 x 400 x 720 mm.
AD NAUSEAM (2022), iron-filled stones found on local Portobello Beach, Hessian, Jute Rope, Iron Oxide Powder - size variable.
ECLOSION (2022), Branch, Jute Rope, Hessian, Iron Oxide Powder, Water (Branch length approximately 1400 mm).
MANES (2022) - Hessian used with Concrete, Treated Sawn Sticks - size variable (sticks height: 1100 mm)
"SLEEP TIGHTER!" (2021) - Jute Rope, Branch - Size Variable.
"IN AETERNAM VALE!" (2022) - jute rope, wax on wooden support - 500 x 700 x 500 mm.
"IN AETERNAM VALE!" (2022) - jute rope, wax on wooden support - 500 x 700 x 500 mm.
TENSILE BREAK (2021) - concrete, driftwood, fire, jute rope, aluminium - 450 x 230 x 230 mm.
ABOVE SURFACE (2021) - wood, concrete, jute rope, glue - 600 x 300 mm.
APART (2021) - driftwood, aluminium, concrete, space. 350 mm (width)
CONTAINED (2021) -jute rope, driftwood, concrete - 100 x 200 x 100 mm.
MOON FOREST (2021) - driftwood, concrete, 300 mm (height).
Ophelie Napoli
Reconciling Industry and Nature into a Brief Moment in Time
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