Pin, 2023
Glazed ceramic with metal pin
Approx. size: 17 x 9 x 9 cm
Edition of 19, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate
Launch price: £350
Members price: £315

Paloma Proudfoot works with ceramic to make installations that investigate corporeality. To mark CCA’s 5th birthday, the artist has created a series of sculptures resembling drawing pins. These drawing pins feature in recent installations as pin-point markers of memory. They are simultaneously innocuous everyday objects, but scaled so that they become threatening, or weapon-like. Which absent body has forced these giant pins into the wall, and for what purpose?

The sculpture can be wall based, by inserting the metal pin into a pilot hole, or displayed as a freestanding object.

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