SAMANTHA MOGELONSKY
Samantha Mogelonsky, My Archipelago - the Windmill Island (2008)
Samantha Mogelonsky, |
Mogelonsky is a Canadian artist, currently based in London, having graduated from the Master's of Fine Art program at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art in 2007. Previously, she studied at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and achieved her Bachelor’s of Fine Art (Honours) in Fine Art (sculpture) and Contemporary Art History. She is a recent participant in the Florence Trust Studio Residency Program, North London, as well as the Château de la Napoule Art Foundation Residency in Mandelieu- La Napuole, France, which she both completed in 2008. Stories, folk-lore, narrative and fairy-tales, especially those where scale is played with and explored such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, are an important reference and starting point for her practice. She works and re-works handmade objects on a miniature scale, thereby referencing imaginary, fairy-tale like structures, scenarios and villages. By developing her own form of naïve sculptural language, Mogelonsky crafts environments where the viewer is transported into an imaginary space, outside and beyond the everyday, to become both a participant and observer of a created and invented narrative. The use of handmade objects are essential to her projects, highlighting the laborious, time consuming and tedious nature of her practice. These sculptural forms, at once both humorous and sinister, seek to investigate language, story-telling and repetition. With these projects the heroically handmade and time consuming coexist with the fleeting nature of their appearance to point toward their own ultimate obsolescence and irrelevance.
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