Liao Wen 廖雯
Tender Residue #3 柔软的剩余物 #3, 2024
hand-carved and painted limewood, 3D printed stainless steel, sawdust and wood glue, copper threads, glass beads, wood beads 手工雕刻及上色椴木，3D 打印不锈钢，木屑和木工胶，铜丝，琉璃珠，木珠
76 x 22 x 39 cm
30 x 8 1/2 x 15 1/2 in
30 x 8 1/2 x 15 1/2 in
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These sculptures present a structural botanical study of the seeds and fruits of melembu (#1), coco de mer (#2), woolly dyeing rosebay (#3), and crown flower (#4). Hailing from Malaysia,...
These sculptures present a structural botanical study of the seeds and fruits of melembu (#1), coco de mer (#2), woolly dyeing rosebay (#3), and crown flower (#4). Hailing from Malaysia, Seychelles and India, most of these plants are traditionally used as medicinal antidotes or natural dyes. The tender insides of the fruits are visible through wound-like openings, revealing tufts of silky hairs and wispy seeds tidily folded in follicles and kidney-shaped atria. Inspired by seeds fallen onto concrete roads and, thus, no longer partaking in the natural circle of life, the works attempt to look at these remnants of failed fertilisation as aesthetic, non-functional objects, and constitute a continuation of the artist’s interest in interspecies and metaphorical connections between human beings and nature.