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Graduate Studies

Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (MA, MDes and MFA)

Stephen Severn

Solid Things

Installation
2022
Solid Things explores the fluidity of human-object relations through the process of casting. The objects, cast in beeswax, gypsum, and resin, make present the voids formed by disposable plastic food containers and moulds of objects. Solidifying these voids actualizes a presence, inviting an orientation to the thingness of these objects — to fluid human-object relationships that morph across these material transformations.

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Stephen Severn

Photography, assemblage, mixed media, video, installation

“My practice investigates object arrangement as a site for engaging with the animacy of all matter, against a tendency to categorize and separate the animate and inanimate, the living and non-living....” [More]