Domnick Sorace

Self-Extended, 2023

Artist's blood, distilled water, hollow glass spheres and resin

‘Self-Extended consists of hundreds of hollow glass spheres, each containing varying amounts of distilled water and the artist’s blood, collected periodically over two years by a medical professional. The artwork challenges the physical limitations of the self by treating the body’s components as a medium. Blood carries an array of emotional and physical states, which get preserved in stasis, expanding the self through space and time. The spheres become vessels, incubating versions of the artist’s decentralised self, while coexisting simultaneously.’

Féinsínte, 2023

Fuil an ealaíontóra, uisce driogtha, sféir ghloine chuasacha agus roisín

‘Is éard atá in Féinsínte ná na céadta sféar gloine cuasach. Tá méideanna éagsúla d’uisce driogtha agus d’fhuil an ealaíontóra le fáil i ngach sféar. Bhailigh gairmí leighis an fhuil ar bhonn tréimhsiúil thar dhá bhliain. Tugann an saothar ealaíne dúshlán theorainneacha fisiciúla an duine trí chaitheamh le codanna an choirp mar mheán. Samhlaítear meascán staideanna mothúchánacha agus fisiciúla le fuil, staideanna a chaomhnaítear go buan, a leathnaíonn an duine féin trí spás agus am. Glactar leis na sféir mar shoithí, leaganacha ar gor den ealaíontóir díláraithe, fad is atá gach rud ag maireachtáil taobh le chéile ag an am céanna.’

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