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Unstable Attendants
2025
Found and reclaimed materials including fly-tipped chair frame, boat fender, inflatable ball, golf clubs, skipping rope, hose pipe, polystyrene waste, concrete, plaster, papier-mâché, household paint, varnish, adhesives, string, tape, and steel armature.
115 × 130 × 50 cm

Unstable Attendants is a two-part floor-based sculpture that explores a relationship between two precarious entities held in close proximity. Constructed from locally salvaged and reclaimed materials, discarded objects are reassembled into bodily forms whose previous functions remain partially visible, suggesting figures that support, lean towards, or depend upon one another in an unresolved exchange. Layered and uneven surfaces form an improvised skin that both conceals and exposes the materials beneath, allowing traces of use, damage, and repair to remain present. Through humour, awkwardness, and tension, the work reflects on vulnerability, endurance, and the negotiation required for things to remain upright or intact, proposing instability as a shared condition between bodies, objects, and systems of support.

© 2002-2025 David Kefford

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