My ‘kiss cast’ sculptures were originally inspired by my desire to visualise how differently people kiss - and to memorialise these moments in glass.
The ‘kiss-in’ event opened out what was originally a personal investigation into a very pubic investigation.I actively set out to engage my audience in direct physical and emotional participation, creating a pseudo dental / medical context for my social experiment.
By inviting a diverse range of people to donate their kisses to the project, I have created a unique survey of the kiss; recording both the sculptural forms of desire and all the intimate dialogues involved in this act through an epic video portrait. Each mouth and way of kissing creates a unique expression of desire whose wet, writhing forms are delivered like a birth from their mouths.
The kisses are transformed through an elaborate indexical mould – making techniques where each kiss is suspended and framed as a negative space within a block. The intricate languages of the kiss are scrutinized through the magnifying qualities of the glass to reveal an extraordinarily rich vocabulary of alien forms in silvery, medical detail.
Charlie's AA2A story was selected for our digital publication 'Time and Space - Celebrating 10 years of AA2A schemes'. Click to open
My ‘kiss cast’ sculptures were originally inspired by my desire to visualise how differently people kiss - and to memorialise these moments in glass.
The ‘kiss-in’ event opened out what was originally a personal investigation into a very pubic investigation.I actively set out to engage my audience in direct physical and emotional participation, creating a pseudo dental / medical context for my social experiment.
By inviting a diverse range of people to donate their kisses to the project, I have created a unique survey of the kiss; recording both the sculptural forms of desire and all the intimate dialogues involved in this act through an epic video portrait. Each mouth and way of kissing creates a unique expression of desire whose wet, writhing forms are delivered like a birth from their mouths.
The kisses are transformed through an elaborate indexical mould – making techniques where each kiss is suspended and framed as a negative space within a block. The intricate languages of the kiss are scrutinized through the magnifying qualities of the glass to reveal an extraordinarily rich vocabulary of alien forms in silvery, medical detail.
Charlie's AA2A story was selected for our digital publication 'Time and Space - Celebrating 10 years of AA2A schemes'. Click to open
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