Korissa Frooman

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

Korissa Frooman is a Brooklyn-based anti-disciplinary artist whose work delves into the humanity embedded within materiality. Drawing from a background in fashion design, she integrates techniques and materials from the industry to create works that blur the boundaries between mediums, offering an intimate exploration of texture, memory, and transformation. Her practice navigates themes of abandonment, memory, and the traces we leave behind, uncovering the soulfulness that lingers in inanimate objects and materials. By approaching memory as a tangible material rather than an abstract concept, Frooman crafts pieces that honor the interplay of presence and absence, permanence and ephemerality. Found objects, often discarded and forgotten, become conduits of connection. Encased in materials like latex or bioplastics, these objects embody the essence of humanity, aging visibly over time to echo the fleeting nature of life itself. Her work also examines the futility of containment. Containers themselves—whether physical or metaphorical—are subverted, with forms often breaking free of their boundaries to inhabit new spaces. For example, her pieces incorporating vegan sausage casings transform the material from an object of containment into an entity that resists containment entirely, breaking out of frames and occupying liminal, suspended spaces. The artist’s process is rooted in exploration and play, emphasizing the unpredictability of creation. Heat is central to her practice,...

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