Chrysalis

Film, Sound, Sculpture. Chrysalis, 2024, is an installation work that demonstrates a leaky, gloopy, transformation of growth. The sculpture is made from upcycled materials and takes influence from the Arte Povera Movement. A plinth has been distressed using plaster to create a free-flowing bumpy texture and soil to inflict obscene smudges that oppose the pristine conditions of the ‘white cube’ gallery, thereby lowering its status of perfection to something more attainable. Branches from a buddleia tree, otherwise known as butterfly bush, sprout out from the plinth, entangled in stringy gelatine and cobwebbed hair. Hanging from above, individual buds coated intricately with plaster, gelatine and hair, float around the centre sculpture as they dance to the soundscape of cracking eggshells and the whimsical melody of the accordion. The rhythm becomes faster and faster, intensifying the installations visual rhythm between attraction and repulsion.