The Game Of Perception

Clare Stephenson's Sculptures

 Made from Silkscreen on wooden panels, Prop-like cut-out stand.

La Belle Toute Savante 2009

Our Lady Of The Conscious Optics 2009

Ornament And Boredom 2009

   Clare Stephenson's sculptures occur to me in the similar way of seeing fashion as artistic experience. The game of perception, of subverting material with image and vice versa, is redoubled in her work's development process. By manipulating appearance of physical bodies and recycled its own images. These sculptures embodies a fashion of aesthetics. What I really like about her work is that she brought together influence of pop-culture and historical elements. It is a self recreation and these figures conflate Modernism and medievalism. The installation recalled a mannequin display in a department store, or a waxworks museum, or a stage set.