{"id":68611,"date":"2018-07-09T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=68611"},"modified":"2018-07-24T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:25:08","slug":"meet-the-artist-whose-subversive-sculptures-worship-the-nipple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/meet-the-artist-whose-subversive-sculptures-worship-the-nipple\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the artist whose subversive sculptures worship the nipple"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[10872,10873,141,5492,10874,10875,10876],"class_list":["post-68611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-art-night","tag-clementine-keith-roach","tag-london","tag-manifesta","tag-manifesta-12","tag-palermo","tag-pervilion"],"acf":{"main_category":139,"legacy":false,"subtitle":"Clementine Keith-Roach is the artist using hyper-realistic casts to examine society's relationship with the female body and push feminist visuality","hero":{"video":false,"image":false,"header_color":"black","overlay_color":"","overlay_text_color":"black"},"teasers":{"video":false,"image":false,"width":"4","proportion":"default"},"related_articles":[63600,44789,40353],"next_article":[63600],"content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Clementine Keith-Roach, Belle Dam, 2018. Installation view of Pervilion, Oasis Farm Waterloo. Photos Ottilie Landmark.\u00a0Courtesy of\u00a0Dorothy Feaver."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Clementine Keith-Roach\u2019s artwork is as astute as it is aesthetic. Her best-known works, her \u201cnipple urns\u201d, are anthropomorphic vases where breasts seem to grow out of the aged patina of the ceramic. As well as body parts, her practice involves casting everyday, inanimate objects that serve as extensions of the body, and by arranging them demands that their forms are viewed afresh. Currently on show with the Seeld Library at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is Keith-Roach\u2019s museum-like display of milky resin fragments \u2013 the negative spaces from a collection of breast pumps and baby bottles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This summer, Keith-Roach is pushing feminist visuality by exploring the transformative human experience of birth and breastfeeding as part of Pervilion, a transient exhibition project. Her exhibition\u00a0Herm<\/i> opened alongside nomadic biennial\u00a0Manifesta<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Palermo, adorning the windows of Edizioni Precarie, a collective of women paper makers, and the bar Botteghe Colletti in the city\u2019s artisanal district. Meanwhile at Art Night 2018 in London, Keith-Roach presented an ornamental fountain complete with milk-substitute-spouting nipples. We should all know by now that tits and brains aren\u2019t mutually exclusive, but sometimes people still need a little convincing. To give you the necessary ammunition to use against these misguided souls, we give you the lowdown on the thinking behind Keith-Roach\u2019s up-close-and-personal depictions of the female body.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Clementine Keith-Roach, Herm, 2018. Photo by Camille Bokhobza, courtesy of Dorothy Feaver."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Much like her \u201cnipple urns\u201d,\u00a0Herm\u00a0<\/i>is imbued with classical influence. <\/span>The titular sculpture takes its name from the \u2018herm\u2019, an ancient sculptural form, a stone pillar adorned only with a head and a penis; usually it bore the image of the god Hermes. Instead of stone, Keith-Roach\u2019s update is made using pressed paper pulp made from food wrappings from Palermo\u2019s markets. The paper sculpture constitutes a minimalist version of the ancient herm, but she has removed the male head and replaced the penis with a pair of breasts.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Clementine Keith-Roach, Herm, 2018. Photo by Camille Bokhobza, courtesy of Dorothy Feaver."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Playing on the ideas of severance and fragmentation, the exhibition in Palermo is itself is bipartite. In the second part, Keith-Roach presents a stylised retelling of the Mutilation of Saint Agatha: the legend of a virgin whose breasts were severed after refusing to marry a Roman governor. An archive of disjointed body parts or \u201crelics\u201d \u2014<\/span> breasts, fingers, feet, ears, a belly button<\/span> \u2014 are moulded from plaster casts taken from the artist\u2019s own body and those of her loved ones, then tautly vacuum-packed in clear plastic. These plastic wrappings allow Keith-Roach to explore what she describes as the \u201cfetish of the hermetic seal\u201d; an obsession with untainted goods which aligns the time-worn objectification of the female body with the food markets on the streets of contemporary Palermo.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Clementine Keith-Roach, Herm, 2018. Photo by Camille Bokhobza.\u00a0Courtesy of Dorothy Feaver."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Far from the Sicilian sun, Keith-Roach presented work as part of Art Night on 7 July, London\u2019s largest free festival of contemporary art. Each year, the festival descends upon an area of the city for one night only, tracing a trail through local galleries and site-specific installations. This summer, after partnering with the newly re-opened Hayward Gallery, Art Night focusses on South London, going from the Southbank Centre to Battersea Power Station via Vauxhall.<\/span> Pervilion \u201cexplores an abstracted idea of the pavilion, separate to the main body, erected to delight and transport\u201d and this time<\/span> occupied a barn at the threshold of London\u2019s youngest city farm, Oasis Farm Waterloo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Extending the forms familiar from her \u201cnipple urns\u201d and\u00a0Herm,<\/i>\u00a0and drawing on her experience of the surreal, baroque architecture of Palermo, Keith-Roach crafted a monumental new installation \u2013 a chimeric<\/span> trio of vases<\/span> decorated with eerily realistic casts of breasts, hands and feet. Belle Dam<\/i> invited cooling reflection in its hidden garden setting in the middle of the July heatwave. As the focal point of Pervilion, it drew attention to the challenges of living in the city, where public space for leisure is increasingly under pressure. The curves of the vase forms culminate in nipples spouting mysterious milk substitute at odd angles. Whilst the fountain presents a version of ideal beauty for contemplation, it also presents a different side of the female body as a complex site of communication. As Keith-Roach puts it: \u201cJust as the mother\u2019s breast lactates at the infant\u2019s cry,\u00a0Belle Dam<\/i>\u00a0spurts arcs of milk substitute in response to the groan of the city\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Clementine Keith-Roach, Belle Dam, 2018. Installation view of Pervilion, Oasis Farm Waterloo. Photos Ottilie Landmark.\u00a0Courtesy of Dorothy Feaver."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Herm,<\/i><\/a><\/span>\u00a0curated by Dorothy Feaver, appears in Palermo during Manifesta 12. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Check Instagram @pervilion<\/a> for more editions of Pervilion<\/em><\/p>\n

Lead image: Clementine Keith-Roach, Ouroboros, courtesy of Hunter Harrison.<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\nMeet the artist whose subversive sculptures worship the nipple Meet the artist whose subversive sculptures worship the nipple<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/meet-the-artist-whose-subversive-sculptures-worship-the-nipple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet the artist whose subversive sculptures worship the nipple Meet the artist whose subversive sculptures worship the nipple\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/meet-the-artist-whose-subversive-sculptures-worship-the-nipple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-09T12:24:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-24T12:25:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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