2024

View through the glass window showing a room with sculptures and art supplies, including a wooden chair, various carved objects, and a young person with short hair among the art pieces.
An indoor art installation featuring a humanlike sculpture with a rounded, nude torso and legs, accompanied by a tall, textured wooden sculpture and hanging fabric or paper on the wall.
An art installation features various sculptures and objects arranged on a wooden table in a gallery. The sculptures include a female figure, a hand, and other abstract forms. There are additional objects on the table such as stones, fabric, and a small orb. The background shows a white wall with textured panels and minimal decor.

Concept: Fiona Fell & Jimmy Paez

Performance: Jimmy Paez

Installation: Fiona Fell

Sound: Mick Dick

Camera & Visual Editing: Krzysztof W. Wróbel

The work invites viewers to contemplate difficult conversations and awkward embraces, emerging from an audit of objects within the CasCaDas object archive. This audit examines various facets of the objects, including their form, material, size, historical significance, sentimental value, and their potential for continuation or discontinuation.

In deconstructing these works, the installation honours the complexity and adaptability inherent in shared experiences, making room for emergent narratives in the tangled knot of existence.

The installation is performed.

The performer engages with objects in the space, blending the organic and inorganic, exploring the boundaries between animate and inanimate, flesh and clay, surface and skin. Each gesture transforms the objects into participants, highlighting their materiality and vulnerability.

As the performer deconstructs and rearranges the environment, a tension emerges. The room feels alive yet unfixed, poised between cohesion and collapse.

Art studio with various sculptures and art supplies on tables and a tiled floor.
A shirtless man with dark hair is sitting on the floor in a corner, scratching his nose with his right hand. To his right, there is a tall, textured, brown ceramic sculpture on a small wheeled platform. The background features a plain white wall, some hanging objects, and a wooden frame on the floor.

Difficult Conversations & Awkward Embraces