XOXO, was another end of year degree show, for the second year, 2016, on Regent Street again but in a different venue of The East Street Arts association building. 

 

The second-year exhibition contained a soldered wire sculpture, that responded to the fragility of life in response to Freud's Death Drive theory. The theory of animate life's task to return back to inanimate chemistry, in a sociological context in society. The structure of this piece represented the anatomy of life-size lungs. Encased within a perspex box to keep the viewer out yet capture their attention in. And showcasing the fragile significance of its structure. Linking to the archive order of museums relic objects and artist Damien Hirst, that presents the tension between the polar opposites of animate and inanimate representations. 

 

The reflection created by the refractive transparency of the perspex elaborates a range of reflective perspectives. I experimented with a range of materials and casting processes within the second year that communicated this memorial notion of time. Such as concrete and resin that expressed the sublime poignancy of preservation and permanence. 

 

Within this exhibition I found that others circulated around a similar minimalist two and three dimensional forms within their mark makings and materialities presented and inspired by the object.