Sacha Ingber

Lives and works in New York, NY

Artist statement

My work has always been rooted in associative freedom. I draw relationships between words and images that make sense to me, even when unusual. Simultaneously, my practice has always been driven by formal inventiveness and the potential of materials or processes. There is no hierarchy between craft and the conceptual - I try to make space for both and allow them to build on each other. Materially, nothing is out of bounds, as long as it serves what a particular piece needs. I cast, build, weave, and paint materials like clay, plaster, plastic, fabric, rope, and wood. My influences include cooking, the culture analytics and pop of the Tropicália movement, being a teenager, the playfulness of Roberto Burle Marx, the familial domestic interiors from my birth country of Brazil, the symmetry and tactility of contemporary fashion, and the unique combination of structure, willfulness, and fantasy found in Visionary Architecture, to name a few. My body, especially since pregnancy, has brought up many new associations with my ongoing points of interest. The female body as literal architecture when housing a fetus, brought way to my ongoing series of vessel/ architecture/ figure hybrid sculptures. In these works, a fabric awning acts as a shelter or a garment, and a handle acts as both a functional place to hold a pitcher and a human arm. In other recent works, I have been studying the formal and practical qualities of books, calendars, notebooks, and various measuring devices. They...

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