Adriana Wynne

I employ a feminist approach to sculptural practice. Art-making is a space where my body meets the material through transitional forms. I see my female body as a machine that is socially understood as performative and functional. I use industrial materials to reference the interconnectedness of the mechanical and the corporeal. In this piece, the rawness of materials provided a sense of familiarity while their combinations and altered forms conveyed sensations that are ambiguous. Steel, latex, and terracotta are relevant to my research, because they all have a history associated with certain societal and historical uses and performances that carry either masculine or feminine connotations. Here, I proposed a deeper understanding of the self as organic and ambiguous matter. My sculptures deal with the emotions associated with personal bodily experiences, which are accessed through memory. I revisit these experiences through the visceral act of making. My sculptures attempt to carry visceral sensations rather than to narrate emotions. I use abstraction as a way to process and understand certain emotions without having to relive them visually, and as a feminist rejection of aestheticizing the female form.