Jessica Harrison

Gallery Thumbnails

Biography

My sculptural practice ranges from installation, to film, to printmaking and drawing, focusing on transitions within bodies - transitions between surfaces, between states and between spaces. My interest in the sculptural body is not one of component, boundary-defined parts, but a complex chiasm of intertwining surfaces that relate to and transgress one another. Rather than being a stable entity, the body emerges in the work as one in constant flux, the surface of the body acting as the point of communication and mediation between what is perceived as internal and what is defined as external.

By focusing on the surfaces of the body and their relationship to our ideas of consciousness, my work explores the inter-dependence of what could be described as the psychical interior and the corporeal exterior of the human body. This is not undertaken with a dichotomous, dualistic intention, but is an attempt to see how and if these traditional realms bleed into one another, or trade places within a visual, sculptural context: an investigation of the spaces and surfaces in-between the body.

It is from this phenomenological basis that the work is made, exploring the role our surfaces and sensations play in our perceptions and their function as both a connection and division between an interior and exterior space.

Through a collaging of anatomy and fantasy I want to shift the boundaries between person and environment to redefine where a skin can begin and end.