![]() Physically remaking the partial objects symbolised by the prostheses in the photograph uncannily substituted absence for the physical presence of objecthood. The sculpture became then a more generalised icon for a persistent unexplained disappearance. In this instance, the imagined identity of the missing subject was exchanged for a synthetic reminder of him or her. In the case of the sculptural work Completion, the absence announced by the missing subject (and unknown owner of the abandoned prosthetic legs depicted in the original photo) was reconstituted as a tangible object literally remade from the ground up. ![]() The original photograph is also surreal in its apparent obsession with the inherent uncanniness of the artificially human. In fact, the image could be described as quintessentially Surrealist in its foregrounding of the uncanny, the antiquated, the overlooked, the disastrous. The scenario shown in the photograph, while ostensibly documentarian, is equally surreal. Technically Completion reprises a famous black-and-white photograph taken after WWI of the scenario this sculpture depicts. ![]() ‘Impossible Exchange’, Fuzzy Vibes, Auckland, curated by Alex Gawronski and KNULP ![]() (Plaster, chicken wire, paint, resin, shoes, socks, paper) ![]()
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