Simona Brinkmann

Lives and works in Nottingham, UK

Artist statement

Simona Brinkmann was born in Milan, Italy, and is currently based in Nottingham, UK. She works primarily in three dimensions - sometimes also using light and sound. Her practice sits between sculpture and installation, with spatial positioning being as important as the production of discreet sculptural elements. Over the years, she has increasingly made use of a mixture of found and fabricated objects/materials - including industrial, commercial, domestic, orthopaedic, automotive, urban, or pest-control related. These are modified, deconstructed, remade, or re-presented in unfamiliar configurations. The grounding principle of her approach is that ‘space’ (be it public, private, or hybrid) is never neutral, but rather a construct - mediated by objects and infrastructures that influence the ways we operate within it. Her work aims to metabolise this experience, paying particular attention to how such objects and infrastructures might be re-conceived, and how they themselves might be prone to being reframed, reimagined or acted upon, just as they in turn act upon us. Recent projects have included an international artist residency at Fondazione Per L'Arte, Rome; 'Override', her first solo exhibition in the North of England, which marked the artist's month-long residency at The Art House, Wakefield; New Relics at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London; and In-Ruins, a research project and artist's residency taking place at Scolacium Archaeological Park in Southern Italy. She has...

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