Video: Back to Nature: Tory Fair Sculpture Exhibition
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“We all come from childhood,” A. de Saint-Exupery once said through the lips of your well-known hero. "We all come from nature" - so I would say Tory Fair, a young sculptor from America. Nature was interpreted in different ways: as a creative or destructive force, as a source to which it is necessary to return. But for Tory Fair, nature is, first of all, imagination. However, she does not refuse all other meanings of nature.
Tory Fair, Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at Brandeis University, seeks to explore the relationship between humans and the environment. You probably thought that this is another call to protect nature? Not at all, everything is much more complicated. According to Tory, the creation of sculpture revives the relationship with everyone and everyone, and this is nature. In his extraordinary works, the sculptor tries to transform materials into ideas and feelings. At the same time, according to Tory, she transforms herself. For Fair, there is no absolute completeness of form. On the contrary, the work is in a "constant state of questioning and becoming", which in essence is man and nature as a whole. This never-ending "questioning" Tory Fair portrayed in the form of three sculptures in her last exhibition.
Let's take a closer look at the sculptors. Are you surprised by their strange location? Tory Fair placed her sculptures in such a way as to show the inexhaustible curiosity of man for nature. The sculptures seem to peer out from behind the walls, trying to discern what's outside.
Another feature of Tory Fair's sculptures is flowers. Human bodies are literally buried in flowers. Each flower represents thoughts as if they are alive. Therefore, flowers envelop the sculptures, conveying the state of a person's immersion in thought.
As you can see, most of the sculptures represent female bodies. Here, not only the female face of nature is conveyed, as we observed in the sculptures of Katie Ruttenberg. For Tory Fair, her sculptures are also a kind of self-portrait. Tori sculpted sculptures based on her own body in poses of reflection and reverie.
Nature and imagination go hand in hand for Tory Fair. What surrounds us also shapes us. Imagination is part of our resources and our nature. And if you do not look at nature, then where do you get inspiration from?
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