Elke Finkenauer
visual artist

Tend to Improbable Structures

‘Tend to Improbable Structures’ is a series of sculptural vignettes reimagining unconventional constructions my late-father built around the home, like an outdoor TV shelf under a grapevine lit by coloured bulbs, or a doormat screwed to the laminate floor so it didn’t slip. Using what was to-hand he created slices of a personal, practical utopia. Borrowing his fabrication ethos I re-imagine these forms in wood offcuts, repurposed fabric and construction paper – material remnants of lived-in spaces and a practice of working things out.

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'The Long Story' tells the story behind the work, and also the story behind that story.

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