Dog fur, steel wire
Status is a modular, suspended sculpture composed of multiple units that can be adjusted in number and size.
Collected through natural seasonal shedding and routine brushing, dog fur is combined with thin steel wire. Fur, once detached from the body, resists fixed form, as its fibers disperse. The thin steel wire creates a minimal skeleton that holds the material in space without fully resolving its instability. The sculpture is constructed to persist within this condition, a status of permanent instability, a fragile balance that the sculpture is able to inhabit.
Status proposes an inquiry into what can endure in the absence of solidity, investigating precariousness as stable condition.
Embedded in the material is a slow temporality: the fur is sediment, accumulated through daily gestures over time. Each tuft derives from ordinary acts of care and the natural cycles of coat growth and release. The work contains this duration, the coexistence of two beings that have touched each other, allowing it to appear through matter itself.
Once departed from a living body, the fur occupies an indeterminate condition, manifesting as a presence-in-absence. The work exists continuously on the boundaries between existence and disappearance, present and past, form and formless, stability and transience. Rather than resolving these thresholds, the sculpture inhabits them, suggesting that permanence can exist within conditions of ephemerality.
Suspended within the exhibition space, Status responds to subtle air currents, light, and the movement of visitors. As its circular structure rotates slowly, the work unfolds as a raw encounter with matter, tension, and absence.
