BEN PEARCE

Kunijko, 2020
corten steel
1550mm x 500mm x 500mm

Pearce’s art explores memory and reconciles it with a recent and com­mon ‘ancestor’ to us all, childhood. He strives to make visible the quirks and tragedies of our mind’s recording machinations, to materia­lise the emotional states that can cripple our bodies, and which often distort the way we record time and memory. The nature of this internal landscape is of interest to Pearce; his sculptures may exist within his internal world but they also seek to co-exist as time-travellers in our own.

His recent work employs found objects that are reshaped into forms suggestive of scientific apparatus or adjunct experiments. Works shift from one material to another, chang­ing form and shape — shifting as if in a slow state of trans­mutation.
- Ben Pearce