BEHAVIOUR OF OBJECTS WITHIN
The sculptures lie on their backs in positions that suggest both typical dog poses and evoke play, submission, erotics, and dance. In these postures, images and ideals are acted out.
The dogs’ “on back” poses use a traditionally passive position, yet the arrangement of their bodies hints at agency. They create ambiguity, colliding ideas of dominance and submission, active and passive. In line with this, I’ve chosen to call the position these sculpture occupy “Active Bottom,” a term borrowed from Maggie Nelson that challenges conventional ideas of power dynamics and introduces a space between them.
Resting against one pedestal’s white top, we see two yellow, flat shapes glowing like abstract letters on the page of a book. On another pedestal, three tall, thin clay figures mark a space where signs, drawing or writing has transformed into body, image, and gesture. The interaction between the three blue dogs and these objects suggest connections between bodies, language and power.
