A complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.
The artist's practice addresses the industrial complex of virtual and robotic bodies and their relationship to labor in tech, pornography and gaming. While some sculptures were conceived as individual pieces, others were created with digital counterparts within installations that typically include CGI animation, documentary video, drawing and prints.
By presenting the metal works as stand-alone pieces, this book adheres to Meineche Hansen's concern with the material means of production, highlighting their concrete yet elusive nature. Several pieces in the publication are accompanied by poems written by artist
Diego Marcon in response to the works. As an artist's project and an archival document, the publication echoes the tradition of documentary photography devoted to sculpture.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen (born 1981 in Denmark, lives and
works in London) is a Danish artist. She produces exhibitions,
interdisciplinary seminars and publications that foreground the body and its
industrial complex, in what she refers to as a "techno-somatic variant of
institutional critique". Meineche Hansen questions the body in the field of
industrial representations: robotic or virtual bodies, and their
relationship with the
working
world of industries of
gaming,
pornography, and
new
technologies. Her research-led practice has taken the form of woodcut
prints, sculptures and CGI animations, often made by combining her own
low-tech manual craft with outsourced, skilled digital labour.
