https://chrissoal.com Chris Soal Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:19:24 +0000 https://chrissoal.com en https://chrissoal.com/HOME Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:25:49 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/HOME https://chrissoal.com/INTERVIEWS Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:15:19 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/INTERVIEWS INTERVIEWS Ruining Ruination BY HLONIPHA MOKOENA <img width="2506" height="767" width_o="2506" height_o="767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3301793e3f738c9e2faffabce98c5396f0e19936def36eccc8009246479b0301/Soal_Chris_2019-2021_Relic_Studio_2-copy.jpeg" data-mid="188668222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3301793e3f738c9e2faffabce98c5396f0e19936def36eccc8009246479b0301/Soal_Chris_2019-2021_Relic_Studio_2-copy.jpeg" /> InalienableBY ASHRAF JAMAL <img width="3806" height="1279" width_o="3806" height_o="1279" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb82e7ca83221b57e27881a5609bb65963151b36307e901c46df1f32567eb116/Soal_Chris_2019_TheSuffocationOfSafeIsolation_detail.jpeg" data-mid="188687872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb82e7ca83221b57e27881a5609bb65963151b36307e901c46df1f32567eb116/Soal_Chris_2019_TheSuffocationOfSafeIsolation_detail.jpeg" /> In conversation with Chris Soal BY PHOKENG SETAI <img width="3888" height="1311" width_o="3888" height_o="1311" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1137b64c78774ec1f1121ee93ceb77787e83e067870cb7b0804466f1ba6d1aa7/Elegy_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_16-copy-2.jpeg" data-mid="188274694" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1137b64c78774ec1f1121ee93ceb77787e83e067870cb7b0804466f1ba6d1aa7/Elegy_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_16-copy-2.jpeg" /> https://chrissoal.com/Exhibitions Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:15:02 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Exhibitions EXHIBITIONS <img width="3500" height="1168" width_o="3500" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484e620e4b7dca1daeb47c911219bc99577f1d8ceda479e2732a697da3a68383/Spillovers-Notes-on-a-Phenomenological-Ecology_Cover-Image.jpg" data-mid="240539177" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484e620e4b7dca1daeb47c911219bc99577f1d8ceda479e2732a697da3a68383/Spillovers-Notes-on-a-Phenomenological-Ecology_Cover-Image.jpg" /> SPILLOVERS: NOTES ON A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ECOLOGY MUSEO MAXXI &nbsp;&nbsp;SOLO EXHIBITION 202519 OCT- 27 NOV <img width="3500" height="1168" width_o="3500" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43025d9b9fb423f84401c90968bffb1b779034ada69ad4ba9798f13191d1d3ae/Vestige_Cover-Image-.jpg" data-mid="229148260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43025d9b9fb423f84401c90968bffb1b779034ada69ad4ba9798f13191d1d3ae/Vestige_Cover-Image-.jpg" /> VESTIGE EDUARDO SECCI GALLERYSOLO EXHIBITION 20247 JUN - 14 JUL <img width="7000" height="2383" width_o="7000" height_o="2383" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26fe4fa1784c0c99aedd6139958c06d4a24ac3b2fbb8e27672f72238c2de990f/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_HR_3-copy-2.jpeg" data-mid="205819839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26fe4fa1784c0c99aedd6139958c06d4a24ac3b2fbb8e27672f72238c2de990f/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_HR_3-copy-2.jpeg" /> SURFACE TENSION WHATIFTHEWORLD GALLERYSOLO EXHIBITION 20243 FEB - 9 MAR <img width="3500" height="1171" width_o="3500" height_o="1171" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07e11709e92601490c39d6a1ff6d1b7144a09708df5f72dce230c63d5bbf4c69/Finds-taken-for-wonders_image-1.jpg" data-mid="178187896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07e11709e92601490c39d6a1ff6d1b7144a09708df5f72dce230c63d5bbf4c69/Finds-taken-for-wonders_image-1.jpg" /> FINDS TAKEN FOR WONDERS PIERO ATCHUGARRY GALLERY SOLO EXHIBITION 2023 15 APR - 29 JUL <img width="3500" height="1168" width_o="3500" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d593fcedbc71753f88d8c32ee344caf6d0074618a8f3b9c2338af000abf18cb/Gorgon_Cover-Image_2-copy.jpg" data-mid="161797258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d593fcedbc71753f88d8c32ee344caf6d0074618a8f3b9c2338af000abf18cb/Gorgon_Cover-Image_2-copy.jpg" /> REMAINS TO BE SEEN EDUARDO SECCI GALLERYSOLO EXHIBITION 202221 SEP - 11 NOV <img width="3500" height="1168" width_o="3500" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6b7ac251bd0d9cefb02669e7d3cb310523a5d95c7d056ba2ecb345684e4c83a/Elegy_Cover-Image_2.jpg" data-mid="117823621" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6b7ac251bd0d9cefb02669e7d3cb310523a5d95c7d056ba2ecb345684e4c83a/Elegy_Cover-Image_2.jpg" /> ELEGY THE NIROX FOUNDATIONGROUP EXHIBITION 2021MAY - DEC <img width="3500" height="1168" width_o="3500" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c977b17f562eea3488117f3df81503b3b06588ffbf631fa1e77c7e09f0710108/Margins-of-Error_Cover-Image_1.jpg" data-mid="117823622" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c977b17f562eea3488117f3df81503b3b06588ffbf631fa1e77c7e09f0710108/Margins-of-Error_Cover-Image_1.jpg" /> MARGINS OF ERROR THE NIROX FOUNDATIONGROUP EXHIBITION 2021MAY - DEC <img width="3500" height="1168" width_o="3500" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc8ad7bb83b3ff71fb996bc7c59fe2149b31c3f587a9a681bf0dba3c5c9c1836/As-below-so-above-Cover-Image_5.jpg" data-mid="117783292" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc8ad7bb83b3ff71fb996bc7c59fe2149b31c3f587a9a681bf0dba3c5c9c1836/As-below-so-above-Cover-Image_5.jpg" /> AS BELOW SO ABOVE WHATIFTHEWORLDSOLO EXHIBITION 202128 JAN - 1 MAY https://chrissoal.com/Spillovers-notes-on-a-phenomenological-ecology-2025 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:19:24 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Spillovers-notes-on-a-phenomenological-ecology-2025 Top Text Work Press SPILLOVERS: NOTES ON A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ECOLOGYMAXXI MUSEOSOLO EXHIBITION19 OCT - 27 NOV 2025 <img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be805f73feadd40119cfe64f1b5ab8144ec6930cd635bef52807181eeeb273da/_GBE3311.jpg" data-mid="240591556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be805f73feadd40119cfe64f1b5ab8144ec6930cd635bef52807181eeeb273da/_GBE3311.jpg" /> The Ascension, 2025Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Industrial Fabric on Board 325 x 657 x 35 cm Spillovers: Notes on a Phenomenological Ecology– Cesare Biasini Selvaggi English Toothpicks, beer bottle caps, concrete, and sandpaper become, in Chris Soal’s hands, visual organisms that transcend their original function, evoking cellular proliferations, geological stratifications, and new architectures of the living. Each of the artist’s works results from an act of accumulation and layering, through which matter generates new possibilities of itself, transforming into unexpected entities along the thread of a research and poetics that go beyond mere reuse. His practice moves toward a reflection on biological transformation and the interconnection of systems, staging a perceptual ecology that concerns life itself. The exhibition invites the viewer into Chris Soal’s creative process, which unfolds through the concept of spillover—a term that describes the phenomenon of “overflowing.” The materials overflow, surpassing their original function and becoming something else. Perception overflows, called to transcend categories and boundaries. The imagination overflows, shifting from the inorganic toward the biological, evoking proliferating cellular forms, geological layers accumulated over time, and organisms multiplying through space. Italiano Stuzzicadenti, tappi di bottiglia di birra, cemento e carta vetrata diventano, nelle mani di Chris Soal, organismi visivi che travalicano la loro funzione originaria, evocando proliferazioni cellulari, stratificazioni geologiche, nuove architetture del vivente. Ogni opera dell’artista è il risultato di un gesto di accumulazione e stratificazione che porta la materia a generare altre possibilità di sé, mutando in entità inattese sul filo di una ricerca e di una poetica che non si limitano al riuso, ma si spingono verso una riflessione sulla trasformazione biologica e sull’interconnessione dei sistemi, mettendo in scena un’ecologia percettiva che riguarda la vita stessa. La mostra intende accompagnare il visitatore all'interno di un processo creativo di Chris Soal che si definisce attraverso il concetto di spillover, termine che indica il fenomeno della “tracimazione”. Tracimano i materiali, che oltrepassano la loro funzione originaria e diventano altro. Tracima la percezione, chiamata a superare categorie e confini. Tracima l’immaginario, che dall’inorganico si sposta verso il biologico, evocando forme cellulari in proliferazione, strati geologici che si accumulano nel tempo, organismi che si moltiplicano nello spazio. <img width="1748" height="1071" width_o="1748" height_o="1071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69fb81abb302a37e474627ec78346cdc9b0c7493831fc0b91967037d8a37b1ce/Wesbite_The-Ascension.jpeg" data-mid="240772712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69fb81abb302a37e474627ec78346cdc9b0c7493831fc0b91967037d8a37b1ce/Wesbite_The-Ascension.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb213b48d9081347901a0a71503e5d7d2e672efa0a2b211f3c03005d9eab353d/Soal_Chris_2025_The-Apotheosis_LR-9.jpg" data-mid="240591573" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb213b48d9081347901a0a71503e5d7d2e672efa0a2b211f3c03005d9eab353d/Soal_Chris_2025_The-Apotheosis_LR-9.jpg" /> The Ascension (Detail), 2025 Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant onIndustrial Fabric on Board325 x 657 x 35 cm <img width="2048" height="1281" width_o="2048" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abf7c05aa086b2f10e351b4951df1153c516f0ee4cd1bb42589592f24385b4a5/_GBE3316.jpg" data-mid="240541224" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abf7c05aa086b2f10e351b4951df1153c516f0ee4cd1bb42589592f24385b4a5/_GBE3316.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc5bbfad06ef46d56f3db685d99b98097943030f71051af43fcfc850fa62c49b/Soal_Chris_2025_The-yielding-that-prevails_LR-7.jpg" data-mid="240544733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc5bbfad06ef46d56f3db685d99b98097943030f71051af43fcfc850fa62c49b/Soal_Chris_2025_The-yielding-that-prevails_LR-7.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/258188398c7617b4b034fab946672bdec27349fa9e23e724a94745fbf644e0c0/Soal_Chris_2025_The-yielding-that-prevails_LR-8.jpg" data-mid="240541130" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/258188398c7617b4b034fab946672bdec27349fa9e23e724a94745fbf644e0c0/Soal_Chris_2025_The-yielding-that-prevails_LR-8.jpg" /> The Yielding That Prevails, 2025Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Birch Wood Toothpicks held in Polyurethane Sealant, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar152 x 112 x 22 cm <img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e011fd49f63798358f13d1b5e6b30ae4ceb9f7435a738e6eaae031f125b28687/Soal_Chris_2025_The-poetics-of-entanglement_LR-13.jpg" data-mid="240549680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e011fd49f63798358f13d1b5e6b30ae4ceb9f7435a738e6eaae031f125b28687/Soal_Chris_2025_The-poetics-of-entanglement_LR-13.jpg" /> <img width="1558" height="2048" width_o="1558" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9222a266e6f3ddf56477ddca3028041bcbd2ff0b5fe5f52f93c260cef359161/_GBE3322.jpg" data-mid="240541228" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9222a266e6f3ddf56477ddca3028041bcbd2ff0b5fe5f52f93c260cef359161/_GBE3322.jpg" /> The Poetics of Entanglement, 2025Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Birch Wood Toothpicks held in Polyurethane Sealant, Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board 241 x 136 x 27 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82f6b2bb6c6c024473f305312f655b48eecffeffc9606e979303dff02897fd19/Soal_Chris_2025_A-paradoxical-proliferation_LR-7.jpg" data-mid="240550056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82f6b2bb6c6c024473f305312f655b48eecffeffc9606e979303dff02897fd19/Soal_Chris_2025_A-paradoxical-proliferation_LR-7.jpg" />A Paradoxical Proliferation (Detail), 2025 Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar 142 x 96 x 18 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d677bc5fd7753703499b82c7d3edcdbc3aa888b4d605619b788780d70a9e5a4/Soal_Chris_2025_A-paradoxical-proliferation_LR-12.jpg" data-mid="240550061" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d677bc5fd7753703499b82c7d3edcdbc3aa888b4d605619b788780d70a9e5a4/Soal_Chris_2025_A-paradoxical-proliferation_LR-12.jpg" /> <img width="7640" height="5504" width_o="7640" height_o="5504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3176d9bb09f2dbe5afa8533fc9eb607a9c5945ad25a3b80bf702c01a2293589/_GBE3343.jpg" data-mid="240627158" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3176d9bb09f2dbe5afa8533fc9eb607a9c5945ad25a3b80bf702c01a2293589/_GBE3343.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1628" width_o="2048" height_o="1628" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4013538e0092b598d79d7c083557119f20658c7aa35edb2777acce7e85336a24/_GBE3338.jpg" data-mid="240541243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4013538e0092b598d79d7c083557119f20658c7aa35edb2777acce7e85336a24/_GBE3338.jpg" /> The Relentless Deluge, 2025Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on BoardVarious sizes <img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ebc827ec1ced0623848b9945a282fb8524d34fb1e00deb39764103ac62b8b79/Soal_Chris_2025_Torrent_LR-8.jpg" data-mid="240550417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ebc827ec1ced0623848b9945a282fb8524d34fb1e00deb39764103ac62b8b79/Soal_Chris_2025_Torrent_LR-8.jpg" /> Torrent, 2025Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board242 x 123 x 15 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c070ccef01e70ef2e2918aed364b3001f59768b79f9eed3470eb33cd08fc1fff/Soal_Chris_2025_Downpour_LR-10.jpg" data-mid="240550448" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c070ccef01e70ef2e2918aed364b3001f59768b79f9eed3470eb33cd08fc1fff/Soal_Chris_2025_Downpour_LR-10.jpg" />Downpour, 2025Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board109 x 95 x 16 cm <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dffcce33ce2dbf1a7034eee4bf6c60e679715e7609e954f995dd9c516edfee1/Soal_Chris_2025_Wear-and-Tear_LR-2.jpg" data-mid="240550489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2dffcce33ce2dbf1a7034eee4bf6c60e679715e7609e954f995dd9c516edfee1/Soal_Chris_2025_Wear-and-Tear_LR-2.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/056d28c2fe78b1f494e5ccc9e699f9e5fe053f50ad71d28a5978e337fb72de43/Soal_Chris_2025_Wear-and-Tear_LR-6.jpg" data-mid="240550493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/056d28c2fe78b1f494e5ccc9e699f9e5fe053f50ad71d28a5978e337fb72de43/Soal_Chris_2025_Wear-and-Tear_LR-6.jpg" /> Wear and Tear, 2025Woodblock Impression on Eroded Sandpaper Disks held by Acid-Free Tape, to be secured in place with Stainless Steel Pins. 98 x 65 cm <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eee451636f570606dde27b2dc21711b58deb09dbdadb6bce99f57865512590b/_GBE3340.jpg" data-mid="240541245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4eee451636f570606dde27b2dc21711b58deb09dbdadb6bce99f57865512590b/_GBE3340.jpg" /> <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d32074f509a77921619382710583804c5d6716e2c8a9a89e033407dacdc5167/_GBE3324.jpg" data-mid="240541230" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d32074f509a77921619382710583804c5d6716e2c8a9a89e033407dacdc5167/_GBE3324.jpg" /> An Architecture of Attrition, 2025Used Sandpaper Discs adhered with Polyurethane Sealant held by Steel Structurepillar creeper: 110 x 292 x 66 cm floor: 90 x 62 x 34 cm wall: 80 x 50 x 30 cm <img width="1531" height="969" width_o="1531" height_o="969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33d198d58411906201799dc0af4460e792509afda45e0098556ab1e7a5130c41/Soal_Chris_2025_An-Architecture-of-Attrition_LR-9---cropped-copy.jpeg" data-mid="240627682" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33d198d58411906201799dc0af4460e792509afda45e0098556ab1e7a5130c41/Soal_Chris_2025_An-Architecture-of-Attrition_LR-9---cropped-copy.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4787207316fdbb88410b1e4f6e22b4db9b09afa92020c61e926212f5c986bb68/Soal_Chris_2025_An-Architecture-of-Attrition_LR-8.jpg" data-mid="240604206" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4787207316fdbb88410b1e4f6e22b4db9b09afa92020c61e926212f5c986bb68/Soal_Chris_2025_An-Architecture-of-Attrition_LR-8.jpg" /> An Architecture of Attrition (Detail), 2025Used Sandpaper Discs adhered with Polyurethane Sealant held by Steel Structure <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dee97d7be841703b9cb2b847d6b7f267320bf989af2ab7fc664c7cf524bd547/_GBE3357.jpg" data-mid="240541259" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dee97d7be841703b9cb2b847d6b7f267320bf989af2ab7fc664c7cf524bd547/_GBE3357.jpg" /> EXHIBITION PRESS ︎ ARTICLE by Robb Report Africa︎ ARTICLE by Wanted︎ ARTICLE by Arte.It︎ ARTICLE&nbsp;on Huffpost&nbsp;by Marino Midena︎ ARTICLE on AboutArtOnline by Alessandra Imbellone︎ ARTICLE on Il Giornale Dell’Arte by Letizia Riccio︎ ARTICLE on Fill Your Home With Love by Nez d’Alice ︎ VIDEO&nbsp;INTERVIEW by Revenews EXHIBITION CATALOGUE TEXTS ︎ CESARE BIASINI SELVAGGI ︎ ALESSANDRO ROMANINI︎ GIULIANA BENASSI //Get the button 1 var mybutton = document.getElementById("myBtn"); // When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()}; function scrollFunction() { if (document.body.scrollTop > 1000 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 1000) { mybutton.style.display = "block"; } else { mybutton.style.display = "none"; } } // When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document function topFunction() { $("html, body").animate({scrollTop: "0"}); } https://chrissoal.com/Vestige Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:52:11 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Vestige Top Text Work Press VESTIGE EDUARDO SECCI GALLERYSOLO EXHIBITION&nbsp;7 JUN - 14 JUL 2024 <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dfca3aaa812e4b85f9d62d5538d813d0b724d47cc46972f187084377f2af1cd/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_3.jpg" data-mid="214488271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4dfca3aaa812e4b85f9d62d5538d813d0b724d47cc46972f187084377f2af1cd/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_3.jpg" /> Installation view of&nbsp; Detours on the road to myself (left), Vestige (right) and Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees (right), 2024 VESTIGE&nbsp; “A moonlight inhumanly withered again becomes artificial (...) Are you still playing with figurines Only if you live underground can you reach yourself ” Yang Lian, The Cement Man The vectors of creation trigger landscapes where sensitivity and aesthetics reveal themselves in unprecedented bird’s-eye views, despite the vertical pose. In Vestige, we find soft dunes, semi-engraved bas-reliefs, shapes that defeat spikes and sequenced coils of standard aluminum dentils. The Peripatetic axiom (Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses), where the familiar crown caps from glass beer bottles, recovered from a recycling landfill, along with the inherent and possible organicities predisposed by other materials, tear the composition from our first glance. This certainly does not mean disdaining form, but con- sciously surrendering to its genesis. Every work by Chris Soal, encompasses his profound and unusual exploration of materials and their phenomenology, consolidating into a matrix of bold experimentation. Through excavated research, he arrives at philosophical destinations, defining an original thought, each work becomes a manifesto that the titles themselves declare (Detours on the road to myself). A manifesto where the human and the sense of humanism; urban social life, cultural conditioning, waste, differentiation, the vexed state of nature, climate change, and the dialectic of a dystopian world that Chris Soal analyzes, are always placed at the center of his artistic reflection.The focus of the work corresponds to his primary research, which is bio morphism, a sophisticated mutation that develops portions of baroque elasticity, generated in plastic self-sufficiency, among rounded perimeters and expansive areas defined by protruding curves. The vision is sometimes a minimalist matrix; a thick quilt of toothpicks, bamboo toothpicks, birch toothpicks, toothpicks in a state experiencing their combustion, a vegetative state where the inorganic alludes to a mutable and enticing life (To sharpen our senses and soften our touch). In the works of Chris Soal, cement, along with polyurethanes and fiberglass, are not only used to configure and aggregate structure but also to express their dynamic as elements of the avant-garde.In fact, cement is one of the elements that distinguished the 20th century, first in the great architectural experience (Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier as undisputed Masters), and then establishing itself as a material that expresses a strong radicality in art. The Béton brut finds a rare election in the Grande Cretto of Gibellina by Alberto Burri, and in the creations of Giuseppe Uncini who has used it since 1958, narrating not only volumes but brutally opening new compositional concepts to bring out other great existing structures. Just two examples: in 1968, A cast of the Space Under My Chair by Bruce Nauman or in the abstract dimension of House (1993) by Rachael Whiteread.Cement in its essence is associated in the practical sense of construction, yet it has also come to be used as a material to fill voids, memories, destructions, losses and absences. In Vestige, an exhibition conceptualized by Chris Soal for SECCI Gallery in Pietrasanta, he aims to fill human traces, specifically those of marble extraction that belong to the territory crowned by the Apuan Alps, a unique large basin of the precious white gold. Indeed, uncontrolled extractions have modified, over time, the skyline of the marble crown, where the lunar and desolate sense that the mountain returns is what Chris Soal brings to light in his new eponymous sculptures, enhanc- ing the sense of a lost trace and expanding the strength of a memory to be preserved, which, to coalesce with Jean Baudrillard, we can define ‘vestiges of the real’ not by the map that precedes the territory. - Chiara Guidi <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab2f846c441cfe427fdc5fa846aecadaced0ab9c6bbcc4d47c99b248fc36c329/CSO028_1.jpg" data-mid="214488348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab2f846c441cfe427fdc5fa846aecadaced0ab9c6bbcc4d47c99b248fc36c329/CSO028_1.jpg" /> Detours on the road to myself, 2024Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Birch Wood Toothpicks held in Polyurethane Sealant, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar.220 x 180 x 22 cm <img width="1050" height="1575" width_o="1050" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7959061c9f6001bbd8aa188494771ead320dbb9bec6f37b9e266e4e2b47c6fb9/CSO028_6.jpg" data-mid="214488353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7959061c9f6001bbd8aa188494771ead320dbb9bec6f37b9e266e4e2b47c6fb9/CSO028_6.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebda6f09e040ba8d10a3fb0ce72e10e0466683d5a81088c82aa85b1a1963425b/CSO028_5.jpg" data-mid="214488352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebda6f09e040ba8d10a3fb0ce72e10e0466683d5a81088c82aa85b1a1963425b/CSO028_5.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd76877105eb623bd497ea1b29312387c9a020e19cf6532b9c324f33150ffef9/CSO028_4.jpg" data-mid="214488351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd76877105eb623bd497ea1b29312387c9a020e19cf6532b9c324f33150ffef9/CSO028_4.jpg" /> Detours on the road to myself (Detail), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe0822f3553d50a0779ac9a6be877e4431f134f24cb1b489c24e3c2dddf198ae/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_13.jpg" data-mid="214488282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe0822f3553d50a0779ac9a6be877e4431f134f24cb1b489c24e3c2dddf198ae/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_13.jpg" /> Installation view of Vestige and Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees,&nbsp;2024 Vestige (below), 2024Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete Relief Cast. 72 x 172 x 13 cm <img width="1260" height="1575" width_o="1260" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e56a21d51f67b370199eb923f1466f04c8358bbce7d79f540e0e7e71ea1c0c4c/CSO026_1.jpg" data-mid="214488436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e56a21d51f67b370199eb923f1466f04c8358bbce7d79f540e0e7e71ea1c0c4c/CSO026_1.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1f83e355262fe0114c0828563a6d34e86ae611bef73f9a26e761ccab4f2ddc3/CSO026_3.jpg" data-mid="214488438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1f83e355262fe0114c0828563a6d34e86ae611bef73f9a26e761ccab4f2ddc3/CSO026_3.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c74b5c691eb17b7ad7baf38b7c29d3edda572517709b80649671014c2dee77b/CSO026_4.jpg" data-mid="214488439" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c74b5c691eb17b7ad7baf38b7c29d3edda572517709b80649671014c2dee77b/CSO026_4.jpg" /> Vestige (detail), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f933c642e3b77e305404b8b7da75c4df4f935f50235c455441ba75d4f90895b/CSO031_2.jpg" data-mid="214488365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f933c642e3b77e305404b8b7da75c4df4f935f50235c455441ba75d4f90895b/CSO031_2.jpg" /> Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees, 2024Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Birch Wood Toothpicks held in Polyurethane Sealant, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar.130 x 115 x 13 cm <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/401c148f1ea502e181dcda5ff601016e7067d0cda76edde1bdaa2be932ca8ab4/CSO031_4.jpg" data-mid="214488367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/401c148f1ea502e181dcda5ff601016e7067d0cda76edde1bdaa2be932ca8ab4/CSO031_4.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e07284244dc3f4d963bfe4c057efef4fb75a5f833785e58cf38debe20752a6be/CSO031_5.jpg" data-mid="214488369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e07284244dc3f4d963bfe4c057efef4fb75a5f833785e58cf38debe20752a6be/CSO031_5.jpg" /> Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees (Details), 2024 <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2dfc02ae7774ff79332e169e2009978cefb8f6fa49c502663475f492ea778a4/CSO032_1.jpg" data-mid="214488382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2dfc02ae7774ff79332e169e2009978cefb8f6fa49c502663475f492ea778a4/CSO032_1.jpg" /> The peripatetic axiom (Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses),&nbsp;2024Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board. 84 x 77 x 15 cm <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1560a63a504943ea1cde9071f5a68b076ad9c6782dcb76a7dfc24b2f7274fd18/CSO032_3.jpg" data-mid="214488385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1560a63a504943ea1cde9071f5a68b076ad9c6782dcb76a7dfc24b2f7274fd18/CSO032_3.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/507d569cb030e86aa0b8f5327030bf30a3fb63b717972ddf4817e0abac5afb60/CSO032_5.jpg" data-mid="214488388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/507d569cb030e86aa0b8f5327030bf30a3fb63b717972ddf4817e0abac5afb60/CSO032_5.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02c617163dac3bc3de755785826bcd6e84eee5fbed0475ec8ddddac4185cf3dd/CSO032_4.jpg" data-mid="214488386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02c617163dac3bc3de755785826bcd6e84eee5fbed0475ec8ddddac4185cf3dd/CSO032_4.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; The peripatetic axiom (Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses) (Details), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c5c770cb3d54c18c4ab07d2f11d9d7a4df4d0f373eb777c6ba5f7066e6eaa24/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_18.jpg" data-mid="214488287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c5c770cb3d54c18c4ab07d2f11d9d7a4df4d0f373eb777c6ba5f7066e6eaa24/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_18.jpg" />Installation view of The peripatetic axiom (Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses)&nbsp;(left) and&nbsp;Terra nullius (The somewhere else is nowhere else) (right), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae4c9782bcab91f3cfc9b80efe38b49c6dc197352ca59b5f1fd178d83f73b6be/CSO027_2.jpg" data-mid="214488372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae4c9782bcab91f3cfc9b80efe38b49c6dc197352ca59b5f1fd178d83f73b6be/CSO027_2.jpg" /> Terra nullius (The somewhere else is nowhere else), 2024Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Birch Wood Toothpicks held in Polyurethane Sealant, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar. 177 x 135 x 29 cm <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21091af9594e06a36fbe285a6909f5bcb61da77debe11946a039cb1d5421bd8d/CSO027_7.jpg" data-mid="214488379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21091af9594e06a36fbe285a6909f5bcb61da77debe11946a039cb1d5421bd8d/CSO027_7.jpg" /> <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e0f1068565d938f40fc14e8bf9225bcf894cd5a6d2a016df80cd4e955e1c14f/CSO027_3.jpg" data-mid="214488373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e0f1068565d938f40fc14e8bf9225bcf894cd5a6d2a016df80cd4e955e1c14f/CSO027_3.jpg" /> Terra nullius (The somewhere else is nowhere else) (Details), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f24f1170d5247bf4ef4257580ab0f5dafed7cb1fdb502b04ae3a547ec5ce33a/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_20.jpg" data-mid="214488289" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f24f1170d5247bf4ef4257580ab0f5dafed7cb1fdb502b04ae3a547ec5ce33a/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_20.jpg" /> Installation view of To sharpen our senses and soften our touch (left) and Terra nullius (The somewhere else is nowhere else) (right), 2024 <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a07617ac59474a22121db66498800c405ca32c26f2b4b6847b549263fce0a550/CSO030_1.jpg" data-mid="214488429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a07617ac59474a22121db66498800c405ca32c26f2b4b6847b549263fce0a550/CSO030_1.jpg" /> To sharpen our senses and soften our touch, 2024Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Industrial Fabric on Board.187 x 143 x 24 cm <img width="1050" height="1575" width_o="1050" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3083e876e1a1f84b1c4223cc6a82da151b900606e669453d8739c821e8c43773/CSO030_3.jpg" data-mid="214488431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3083e876e1a1f84b1c4223cc6a82da151b900606e669453d8739c821e8c43773/CSO030_3.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebd4f84418d7b4eecdad49444ed08627c3638ccb41bd5fad1b9cbecfcccb3b22/CSO030_5.jpg" data-mid="214488433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebd4f84418d7b4eecdad49444ed08627c3638ccb41bd5fad1b9cbecfcccb3b22/CSO030_5.jpg" /> To sharpen our senses and soften our touch (Details), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1050" width_o="1575" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2fee795a287e8d406adc21de47b57f6b9b39691523b72c68cb2b710dc8a29e6/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_22.jpg" data-mid="214488291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2fee795a287e8d406adc21de47b57f6b9b39691523b72c68cb2b710dc8a29e6/Installation-views--Vestige--Chris-Soal--Pietrasanta--2024--Photo-by-Stefano-Maniero--Courtesy-the-Artists-and-Secci-Gallery_22.jpg" /> Installation view of To sharpen our senses and soften our touch (left) and Running to stand still&nbsp;(right), 2024 <img width="1575" height="1125" width_o="1575" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b333f5ed866ee1f203306fa80b25f3b0558bbdfccfc91de4aa887db8568ea073/CSO029_2.jpg" data-mid="214488358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b333f5ed866ee1f203306fa80b25f3b0558bbdfccfc91de4aa887db8568ea073/CSO029_2.jpg" /> Running to stand still, 2024Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar. 131 x 72 x 14 cm <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b65242c0796c031d1e3b8c6cc469b504f8ffb147af64b3b88f71e6b20496f9d1/CSO029_6.jpg" data-mid="214488362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b65242c0796c031d1e3b8c6cc469b504f8ffb147af64b3b88f71e6b20496f9d1/CSO029_6.jpg" /> <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6e5627995cd424774b5a427e5ee41128509f98376b51b79691221309c2f3753/CSO029_5.jpg" data-mid="214488361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6e5627995cd424774b5a427e5ee41128509f98376b51b79691221309c2f3753/CSO029_5.jpg" /> <img width="1125" height="1575" width_o="1125" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d378e70c1467a413652cd5f99cbb93677bd3fc6f86bb4ac0dcf634acec198cf8/CSO029_4.jpg" data-mid="214488360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d378e70c1467a413652cd5f99cbb93677bd3fc6f86bb4ac0dcf634acec198cf8/CSO029_4.jpg" /> Running to stand still (Details), 2024 EXHIBITION PRESS ︎ EXHIBITION on Secci Gallery website ︎ ARTICLE on Mutual Art&nbsp; //Get the button 1 var mybutton = document.getElementById("myBtn"); // When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()}; function scrollFunction() { if (document.body.scrollTop > 1000 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 1000) { mybutton.style.display = "block"; } else { mybutton.style.display = "none"; } } // When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document function topFunction() { $("html, body").animate({scrollTop: "0"}); } https://chrissoal.com/Surface-tension-2024 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:34:48 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Surface-tension-2024 Text Work Press SURFACE TENSION WHATIFTHEWORLD&nbsp;GALLERYSOLO EXHIBITION3 FEBRUARY - 9 MARCH 2024 <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b03da136374db640cc8e4afac3765f83b77f90e57b6eab55ac91771b3c8bd83/WITW_Chris-Soal_Installation_Surface-Tension_LR-JPEG-4.4.jpg" data-mid="204065982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b03da136374db640cc8e4afac3765f83b77f90e57b6eab55ac91771b3c8bd83/WITW_Chris-Soal_Installation_Surface-Tension_LR-JPEG-4.4.jpg" /> Surface tension&nbsp;| 2024 | Installation View WHATIFTHEWORLD is pleased to present Surface Tension, a solo exhibition by Chris Soal. My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange! - Ovid Metamorphoses Chris Soal’s latest body of work, Surface Tension 2024, is a development of his practice of the transformation or metamorphoses of quotidian objects and materials. Soal is well known for his, almost compulsive, interest with how everyday objects and materials can be rendered into uncanny yet familiar forms. Soal’s work has always engaged in the process of what Viktor Shklovsky referred to as ‘defamiliarization’. Of rendering the familiar and prosaic into the poetic. Toothpicks are metamorphosized into the gestures of fur and movement; bottlecaps into writhing serpentine forms. Soal engages in the form of art that renews our perception of objects while evoking an intriguing formal dialectic or double voice. His latest exhibition is a further exploration of his established practice with a new focus on the material of sandpaper. Soal first began to see the possibilities of using sandpaper as a medium of expression when he was a student sanding down wood. He noticed that the image of woodgrain had transposed or printed itself through the sandpaper. In Surface Tension he explores the possibilities of image making via this unique method. The images rendered (or in many senses, ‘printed’) through sandpaper, of the movement of water, create a sense of disorientation for the viewer. Works such as The Expanse (2024) and Index (2023) ask the questions: What is the material being used? What has been removed or applied to create the images? The works draw the viewer in, to establish answers, only for the viewer to have to retreat to view and consider them anew. The images break through the surface, as if passing through a membrane, revealing the coloured backing of the sandpaper via a process of sandpapering. The partly absurd and abrasive practice of sandpapering the sandpaper to achieve the image of the fluidity of water has the resonance of a Greek myth, of a Sisyphusian absurd- like task. In some ways it could be considered a reflection on his (now) local Cape Town environment. The sea and its wavering, rippling, and wearing repetitions has become an important part of Soal’s everyday perceptions. Soal’s process of degrading the sandpaper to reveal the lurid industrial blues and yellows of the membrane evokes a sense of our contemporary industrial and environmental crisis. The fragility of the corroded surfaces, however, remains dialectally opposed to the imagery produced, arousing notions of a contemporary Romantic sublime — the mixing of the fear of environmental degradation with the delight of the image of nature’s beauty. But where the sea and Cape Town have influenced his thinking in many of these images, it is his hometown of Johannesburg that has inspired several of his other works. The form of Joburg’s mine dumps, with their eroded kranses, enter the exhibition in the shape of the sculptural work The Things that Only Time will Teach You (2024) and Facet (2024). Again, Soal uses sandpaper, this time in the form of thousands of sandpaper disks, to create the rippling cylindrical effects of Joburg’s most iconic eroding structures. Within the work there is a double voice. The disks, like the dumps, are discarded industrial waste — Soal has collected them from workshops and factories. The colour variation of the sandpaper’s membrane also becomes the simulacra of the dumps, reproducing the veins and strata of these man- made mountains. Like the dumps, The Things that Only Time will Teach You (2024), in a sense memorializes the notion of homo labourans, with all its attendant tragedies and triumphs. To invert an idea from one of Soal’s influences, Francis Alÿs (who argued that something can create nothing), Soal suggests that what we consider to be immaterial can create something. Embedded in the exhibition is the notion that the tension of the surface, which we overlook, creates a tremulous cadence that erodes to reveal underlying forms. New, strange, poetic, and latent forms emerge from the ordinary and prosaic. Text by Matthew Blackman <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d7522dbe239bdda3292d61333f02269b7edbb0b06b1ade2753c4cdee876d8a9/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_5.jpg" data-mid="205819899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d7522dbe239bdda3292d61333f02269b7edbb0b06b1ade2753c4cdee876d8a9/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_5.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e490ca1476ee7bfae3d56cfa0a45851fcc145733ffb9dcab0e43fe1184d6af2e/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_7.jpg" data-mid="205819900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e490ca1476ee7bfae3d56cfa0a45851fcc145733ffb9dcab0e43fe1184d6af2e/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_7.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/788c2f938504fab80cc9fe6246cf4aea8f13211a6bf186e19f96ce2fe043560f/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_2.jpg" data-mid="205819907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/788c2f938504fab80cc9fe6246cf4aea8f13211a6bf186e19f96ce2fe043560f/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_2.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc76bc27fd6252e97c5a233570f3f8fa7a82ba820fac2c25fddf5e52319853ad/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_9.jpg" data-mid="205819902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc76bc27fd6252e97c5a233570f3f8fa7a82ba820fac2c25fddf5e52319853ad/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_9.jpg" /> The Things that Only Time Will Teach You, 2024 Used sandpaper discs adhered with polyurethane sealant held by steel substructure, formation on wheels271 x 174 x 137 cm <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b046c6406723ef9e6e61d584c88f790e8b9d3a34043e8590bbce134fad424d68/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-20.jpg" data-mid="204066086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b046c6406723ef9e6e61d584c88f790e8b9d3a34043e8590bbce134fad424d68/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-20.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c469a9431b94f506e7d4cc8473150eb396e45a93fd2a55e919b37e5730f7d064/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_9.jpg" data-mid="204177781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c469a9431b94f506e7d4cc8473150eb396e45a93fd2a55e919b37e5730f7d064/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_9.jpg" /><img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b1f60c4e0c9940b7befffafe91a5e39d2fe7b09d85f830cde513d55d6327a45/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_10.jpg" data-mid="204179078" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b1f60c4e0c9940b7befffafe91a5e39d2fe7b09d85f830cde513d55d6327a45/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_10.jpg" /> The Expanse (To See The World in a Grain of Sand), 2024Woodblock impression on eroded sandpaper rolls held by acid-free tape, secured with stainless steel pins Sandpaper rolls: Norton P180. Installation variable approx. 360 x 230 x 130 cm <img width="7000" height="4666" width_o="7000" height_o="4666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75c663577efdb681d16adf0f6e6046bd5f13fad0d5231192b35c4cd04dc2f12a/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-19.jpg" data-mid="204066087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75c663577efdb681d16adf0f6e6046bd5f13fad0d5231192b35c4cd04dc2f12a/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-19.jpg" /> <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c68bd81af97599461cab48f3736fb5f2ae7666d1cb31a7f0c76598b91aa3f2ea/WITW_Chris-Soal-Installs_HR-6.jpg" data-mid="204066234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c68bd81af97599461cab48f3736fb5f2ae7666d1cb31a7f0c76598b91aa3f2ea/WITW_Chris-Soal-Installs_HR-6.jpg" /> Surface tension | 2024 | Installation View <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9751a8c549eba44e985f9b8501a70204ea8c628ef730f8b397e0cbe677694595/Soal_Chris_2024_Facet_LR_1.jpg" data-mid="205819914" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9751a8c549eba44e985f9b8501a70204ea8c628ef730f8b397e0cbe677694595/Soal_Chris_2024_Facet_LR_1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3ec6e51fd9c57f1ff21cb731073dd643449a4d50e9da8defe975a0a2d119712/Soal_Chris_2024_Facet_LR_3.jpg" data-mid="205819916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3ec6e51fd9c57f1ff21cb731073dd643449a4d50e9da8defe975a0a2d119712/Soal_Chris_2024_Facet_LR_3.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b7cbe545f90701c55578e8f833b9047d14279978b87110603eb0be49471e539/Soal_Chris_2024_Facet_LR_4.jpg" data-mid="205819917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b7cbe545f90701c55578e8f833b9047d14279978b87110603eb0be49471e539/Soal_Chris_2024_Facet_LR_4.jpg" /> <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2eb77e92747400bb15cfc08b90d0297917073d506f974f90f4d5134fa5c5bdb4/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-30.jpg" data-mid="204066344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2eb77e92747400bb15cfc08b90d0297917073d506f974f90f4d5134fa5c5bdb4/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-30.jpg" /> Facet,&nbsp;2024 Used sandpaper discs adhered with polyurethane sealant on board with stainless steel sub-structure87 x 76 x 45 cm <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1129e752e1ca00817af44eeabc59e3f31126adaa6935b9ff9ccc515d4ce259c1/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-36.jpg" data-mid="204066367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1129e752e1ca00817af44eeabc59e3f31126adaa6935b9ff9ccc515d4ce259c1/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-36.jpg" /> <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e332a1b4799d5dcb66683e15107fea3ca9c5d538889297a3d4757a4ac2884d3c/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-42.jpg" data-mid="204066393" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e332a1b4799d5dcb66683e15107fea3ca9c5d538889297a3d4757a4ac2884d3c/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-42.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f5f886e191592ad911a123893e521b30ccdc72a35fccb40216d383e49a9622a/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_LR-JPEG-41.jpg" data-mid="204066391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f5f886e191592ad911a123893e521b30ccdc72a35fccb40216d383e49a9622a/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_LR-JPEG-41.jpg" /> The City of Old (Rundown), 2024Woodblock impression on eroded sandpaper sheets, held by acid-free tape, to be secured in place with stainless steel pins40 Sandpaper sheets: Klingspor P150, 3M P150, Torkcraft P180.93 x 148 cmEdition of 3 + 2 AP <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77e5e782149bab9737085952db362c555af6a4228799e104f11306872174f956/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_LR-JPEG-17.jpg" data-mid="204066883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77e5e782149bab9737085952db362c555af6a4228799e104f11306872174f956/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_LR-JPEG-17.jpg" /> <img width="4667" height="7000" width_o="4667" height_o="7000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ebd4df583aa67cf3dc2a0172d86606153c5127623727b7a26a8764fc00e0b6b/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-16.jpg" data-mid="204066880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ebd4df583aa67cf3dc2a0172d86606153c5127623727b7a26a8764fc00e0b6b/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-16.jpg" /> Dendrite (The Trickster Makes the World), 2024Woodblock impression on eroded sandpaper pads held by acid-free tape, to be secured in place with secured with stainless steel pinsSandpaper pads: Klingspor P600 and P800.24.4 x 13.6 cmEdition of 15 + 3 AP <img width="7000" height="4670" width_o="7000" height_o="4670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2d816e3d79c976b9d4081589cd29f90a8e326ed5f4006e94d338f2b3717762c/WITW_Chris-Soal_Installation_Surface-Tension_HR-JPEG-4.jpg" data-mid="204067077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2d816e3d79c976b9d4081589cd29f90a8e326ed5f4006e94d338f2b3717762c/WITW_Chris-Soal_Installation_Surface-Tension_HR-JPEG-4.jpg" /> Surface tension | 2024 | Installation View <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbe5e1fff2a11118a86981db37ccc74c4c71dff34831962600b469374d78b0d0/WITW---Chris-Soal_HR-JPEG-58.jpg" data-mid="204067095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cbe5e1fff2a11118a86981db37ccc74c4c71dff34831962600b469374d78b0d0/WITW---Chris-Soal_HR-JPEG-58.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d70f1a48d0a8ec1ea4a27a35cc350a58c5cb2a76339a0f21e27db0059b44f315/WITW---Chris-Soal_LR-JPEG-60.jpg" data-mid="204067129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d70f1a48d0a8ec1ea4a27a35cc350a58c5cb2a76339a0f21e27db0059b44f315/WITW---Chris-Soal_LR-JPEG-60.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d43e3314313447acf30e965873c0982aa62da28cf7ef75debd72b77d2cfa052a/WITW---Chris-Soal_LR-JPEG-61.jpg" data-mid="204067131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d43e3314313447acf30e965873c0982aa62da28cf7ef75debd72b77d2cfa052a/WITW---Chris-Soal_LR-JPEG-61.jpg" /> Index, 2023 Glass fibre reinforced concrete with used motor car oil and rebar, woodblock impression on eroded sandpaper sheets. Sandpaper sheets: Lukas P100, P150 and P400.81 x 61 x 10 cm <img width="4667" height="7000" width_o="4667" height_o="7000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24593868b775695ff847185ca3109c407ac027f03b26d9e24ac6934b4d5dee33/WITW_31_01_2024_exports_HR-JPEG-49.jpg" data-mid="204068510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24593868b775695ff847185ca3109c407ac027f03b26d9e24ac6934b4d5dee33/WITW_31_01_2024_exports_HR-JPEG-49.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/026f2ae6ed45cff46d4b58a122757a64de6d017653d79c0bba5c43fc202c680c/WITW_31_01_2024_exports_LR-JPEG-46.jpg" data-mid="204068404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/026f2ae6ed45cff46d4b58a122757a64de6d017653d79c0bba5c43fc202c680c/WITW_31_01_2024_exports_LR-JPEG-46.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a14f1b98d0de41cc3bf6dcfff24503510f6c955c0d696ec6b49016db4b12ed1/WITW_31_01_2024_exports_LR-JPEG-48.jpg" data-mid="204068405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a14f1b98d0de41cc3bf6dcfff24503510f6c955c0d696ec6b49016db4b12ed1/WITW_31_01_2024_exports_LR-JPEG-48.jpg" />The Cultivation of Ideas, 2024Pine wood planks and varying grit eroded sandpaper pads.95 x 55 x 5 cm. <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf6fb710f408b0b13940037e38de77027f00472e40226e63dd3575234ca3c2a1/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-2.jpg" data-mid="204066492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf6fb710f408b0b13940037e38de77027f00472e40226e63dd3575234ca3c2a1/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_HR-JPEG-2.jpg" /><img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b69e898bca76763628da4af367460620d67f0887fe0b67f64d592ac7861a8164/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_LR-JPEG-4.jpg" data-mid="204066495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b69e898bca76763628da4af367460620d67f0887fe0b67f64d592ac7861a8164/WITW_Chris-Soal_29_01_2024_LR-JPEG-4.jpg" /> The Paradox of Praxis (Sometimes Removing is Revealing), 2024 Woodblock impression on eroded sandpaper sheets held by acid-free tape, to be secured in place with stainless steel pins.11 Sandpaper sheets: Norton P180, Lukas P800, Bosch P120, Torkcraft P180, Heddle P180. <img width="7000" height="4666" width_o="7000" height_o="4666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a31bead6d962482fa094d72962123453c528d8b32b81c5722c5addb201bf3f67/WITW_Chris-Soal_31_01_2024_HR-JPEG-1.jpg" data-mid="204067267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a31bead6d962482fa094d72962123453c528d8b32b81c5722c5addb201bf3f67/WITW_Chris-Soal_31_01_2024_HR-JPEG-1.jpg" /><img width="2160" height="1440" width_o="2160" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a59c48a6fbf08a4d18d43eedc5d5102fe2df885c833929985c5389d54d391132/WITW_Chris-Soal_31_01_2024_LR-JPEG-4.jpg" data-mid="204067271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a59c48a6fbf08a4d18d43eedc5d5102fe2df885c833929985c5389d54d391132/WITW_Chris-Soal_31_01_2024_LR-JPEG-4.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7209612b67ff867757b9e17960325e7bae874a8fe6a7d11e93fd5589c046799b/WITW_Chris-Soal_31_01_2024_LR-JPEG-2.jpg" data-mid="204067270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7209612b67ff867757b9e17960325e7bae874a8fe6a7d11e93fd5589c046799b/WITW_Chris-Soal_31_01_2024_LR-JPEG-2.jpg" /> Surface tension, 2024Woodblock impression on eroded sandpaper sheets held by acid-free tape, to be secured in place with secured with stainless steel pins10 Sandpaper sheets: Norton P180, Ekawet P180.65 x 85 cmEdition of 5 + 2 AP <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdaa6e3aeac8d68ff4761aaa725bfd2a38e6b015934fe9b76227281a8d352d15/WITW_Chris-Soal_Installation_Surface-Tension_LR-JPEG-5.5.jpg" data-mid="204177320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdaa6e3aeac8d68ff4761aaa725bfd2a38e6b015934fe9b76227281a8d352d15/WITW_Chris-Soal_Installation_Surface-Tension_LR-JPEG-5.5.jpg" /> Surface tension | 2024 | Installation View EXHIBITION PRESS ︎ ARTICLE on WHATIFTHEWORLD by Matthew Blackman https://chrissoal.com/Finds-taken-for-wonders Wed, 03 May 2023 07:53:15 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Finds-taken-for-wonders Top Text Work Press FINDS TAKEN FOR WONDERS&nbsp; PIERO ATCHUGARRY GALLERYSOLO EXHIBITION15 APRIL - 29 JULY&nbsp; 2023 <img width="3500" height="2237" width_o="3500" height_o="2237" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61f78149aaf1776271ba883c0746e8579bbad6c1560faae4814988bad7197d2f/Photo5.jpg" data-mid="180631423" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61f78149aaf1776271ba883c0746e8579bbad6c1560faae4814988bad7197d2f/Photo5.jpg" /> Finds taken for wonders | 2023 | Installation View Piero Atchugarry Gallery is pleased to announce Finds Taken For Wonders, the debut solo-exhibition in our Miami Survey of newly represented South African artist Chris Soal. Finds Taken For Wonders brings together key concerns in the artist’s sculptural practice, inviting viewers to reconsider their perceptual biases while challenging societal assumptions of value. Soal’s works poetically contain a deep longing to expose the destructive relationship between humankind and nature by engaging the viewer’s spatial awareness of their own body in relation to the monumental organic forms that shape these large-scale sculptures. Through his use of discarded and mundane ephemera, Soal’s work intuitively develops the familiar to the point of the uncanny. Using conventional mass-produced objects such as beer bottle tops and bamboo toothpicks, Soal highlights the stories embedded into these found materials by extracting them from their typical context. Beer bottle tops become writhing, twisting forms, which appear almost intestinal, but in reality serve as a reminder of the excesses available to us in our modern day. These elements of marginal discard become signifiers of the socio-political and economic excrescences of our society. And yet despite all they evoke, we cannot look away from the spiraling serpentine forms, we are spellbound and challenged through wonder, prompting the question: How do we see the world anew again? The impressive scale of Soal’s toothpick sculptures intentionally challenge viewers to see not just with the eyes, but to perceive with the body, inviting viewers to bodily consider their relation to the work. For instance, the initial soft fur or skin like appearance beckons one to move closer, allowing for an intimate reading and intimidating closeness towards these biomorphic sculptures. It is through this phenomenological encounter that the viewer is made to contemplate the ecological ramifications of societal actions. Ultimately, by working with materials fated to be discarded, Soal’s meticulously-built toothpick sculptures reference both nature and environmental decay pleading to be empathetically recognised. “The delight in discovery is something that has pushed my work forward ever since I have started. It is through this moment of awe that the viewer is invited into a space of agency - for now the parameters of a prior way of seeing have been dismantled, and there lies an invitation to reassess what has been relegated to the peripheral.” - Chris Soal, Finds Taken For Wonder <img width="3560" height="5340" width_o="3560" height_o="5340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34d55fb94dfc2c4ea0c8ae2ac36df4e50178d11a76fe888f440c4715e0d3efad/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_8.jpg" data-mid="180632727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34d55fb94dfc2c4ea0c8ae2ac36df4e50178d11a76fe888f440c4715e0d3efad/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_8.jpg" /> <img width="3560" height="5340" width_o="3560" height_o="5340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/422f6d59ec5a95b97727fec9e46226a1aef5b24247dbc1281504d1da655052ed/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_9.jpg" data-mid="180632726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/422f6d59ec5a95b97727fec9e46226a1aef5b24247dbc1281504d1da655052ed/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_9.jpg" /> <img width="5170" height="3447" width_o="5170" height_o="3447" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cb9a70e4af7ed2dac71dcff96a95101cad09ecca06386c47e0a22ce42391428/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_2.jpg" data-mid="177530937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cb9a70e4af7ed2dac71dcff96a95101cad09ecca06386c47e0a22ce42391428/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_2.jpg" /> Threshold, 2023Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Ripstop Fabric320 x 300 x 45 cm &nbsp; &nbsp; Finds taken for wonders | 2023 | Installation View <img width="3460" height="2305" width_o="3460" height_o="2305" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/277eb7355339604d5369aee2be48c70d2179e952e99a298c1365d74e2f6b425f/Photo4.jpg" data-mid="180631504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/277eb7355339604d5369aee2be48c70d2179e952e99a298c1365d74e2f6b425f/Photo4.jpg" /> <img width="3002" height="4503" width_o="3002" height_o="4503" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdfcff8f475f87bee93aacf5768a7a34efa9037287cb6d84658b360d794d9902/Soal_Chris_2023_Reverie_HR_2.jpg" data-mid="178171610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdfcff8f475f87bee93aacf5768a7a34efa9037287cb6d84658b360d794d9902/Soal_Chris_2023_Reverie_HR_2.jpg" /> <img width="3147" height="4720" width_o="3147" height_o="4720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0c7e37a8505f9189cf5a91169767eacb60030529214b591d863779d1f0f10ac/Soal_Chris_2023_Reverie_HR_1.jpg" data-mid="178171482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0c7e37a8505f9189cf5a91169767eacb60030529214b591d863779d1f0f10ac/Soal_Chris_2023_Reverie_HR_1.jpg" /> <img width="3488" height="5232" width_o="3488" height_o="5232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca2eee00d540d4a1a2e4483ea25dba46713a7a67a68f3f173b9c480c13e0cbec/Soal_Chris_2023_Reverie_HR_5.jpg" data-mid="178171609" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca2eee00d540d4a1a2e4483ea25dba46713a7a67a68f3f173b9c480c13e0cbec/Soal_Chris_2023_Reverie_HR_5.jpg" /> Reverie, 2023Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board, with Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board 198 x 118 x 14 cm <img width="2978" height="4466" width_o="2978" height_o="4466" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbd58b0651c0cbc128b864a4bc5c3c7f006a2c9992cad7a1977dd64a60c8ba9f/Soal_Chris_2023_Holding-out_HR_5.jpg" data-mid="178172231" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbd58b0651c0cbc128b864a4bc5c3c7f006a2c9992cad7a1977dd64a60c8ba9f/Soal_Chris_2023_Holding-out_HR_5.jpg" /> <img width="2768" height="4153" width_o="2768" height_o="4153" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3637906e19174b0e666ef9c978b4f4a403345bb1f49cfec37c5dff1db5b6f8ab/Soal_Chris_2023_Holding-out_HR_3.jpg" data-mid="178172233" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3637906e19174b0e666ef9c978b4f4a403345bb1f49cfec37c5dff1db5b6f8ab/Soal_Chris_2023_Holding-out_HR_3.jpg" /> <img width="3469" height="5203" width_o="3469" height_o="5203" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f43780287668c1fdd33d2b7ca5eebd731ab5ffd3eeffbfc472f238398a3eed87/Soal_Chris_2023_Holding-out_HR_1.jpg" data-mid="178172232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f43780287668c1fdd33d2b7ca5eebd731ab5ffd3eeffbfc472f238398a3eed87/Soal_Chris_2023_Holding-out_HR_1.jpg" /> Holding out, 2023Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar and Flat Bar 127 x 126 x 12 cm <img width="3026" height="4539" width_o="3026" height_o="4539" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3edd366ffa2cf03249025dbe55dce5197a464586944a6473977a20f271f04173/Soal_Chris_2023_Ensemble_HR_3.jpg" data-mid="177532012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3edd366ffa2cf03249025dbe55dce5197a464586944a6473977a20f271f04173/Soal_Chris_2023_Ensemble_HR_3.jpg" /> <img width="3297" height="4946" width_o="3297" height_o="4946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecad823f138bad2bb61ab45da183b791784dbc509a0f1f690edf8c74e08f67b9/Soal_Chris_2023_Ensemble_HR_1.jpg" data-mid="177531533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecad823f138bad2bb61ab45da183b791784dbc509a0f1f690edf8c74e08f67b9/Soal_Chris_2023_Ensemble_HR_1.jpg" /> <img width="3560" height="5340" width_o="3560" height_o="5340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/206f1e3fd115eeee484ed0a626e6fa089a4e9a4c172a28dc563b84132bd56d54/Soal_Chris_2023_Ensemble_HR_4.jpg" data-mid="177532057" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/206f1e3fd115eeee484ed0a626e6fa089a4e9a4c172a28dc563b84132bd56d54/Soal_Chris_2023_Ensemble_HR_4.jpg" /> Ensemble, 2023Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board 255 x 228 x 33 cm PRESS ︎ ARTICLE on Meer //Get the button 1 var mybutton = document.getElementById("myBtn"); // When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()}; function scrollFunction() { if (document.body.scrollTop > 1000 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 1000) { mybutton.style.display = "block"; } else { mybutton.style.display = "none"; } } // When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document function topFunction() { $("html, body").animate({scrollTop: "0"}); } https://chrissoal.com/Remains-to-be-seen Thu, 15 Sep 2022 08:19:05 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Remains-to-be-seen Top Text Work Press REMAINS TO BE SEEN EDUARDO SECCI GALLERY&nbsp; SOLO EXHIBITION21 SEPTEMBER - 11 NOVEMBER 2022 <img width="7087" height="4724" width_o="7087" height_o="4724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0bf87489115d2b95b5c16b0280621d0fdc9783db2063d1a00de947ff8a771d1/Exhibition-view--Remains-to-be-seen--Chris-Soal--2022--Eduardo-Secci-Milano--Courtesy-the-artist-and-Eduardo-Secci--Milan--Florence_1.jpg" data-mid="153016369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0bf87489115d2b95b5c16b0280621d0fdc9783db2063d1a00de947ff8a771d1/Exhibition-view--Remains-to-be-seen--Chris-Soal--2022--Eduardo-Secci-Milano--Courtesy-the-artist-and-Eduardo-Secci--Milan--Florence_1.jpg" /> Remains to be seen | 2022 | Installation View Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce the solo show by Chris Soal in the gallery space in Milan, in Via Olmetto, from September 21 to November 11, 2022. The exhibition brings together new and never-before-seen works by the emerging South African artist, who through sculptural practice not only wants to express a conceptual engagement with the contexts and histories of the objects and materials he uses but also re-enforces the body as a site for knowledge reception and production. Soal's work can be considered as a social abstraction that is deeply rooted and reflective of having grown up in Johannesburg. It seeks to make a poetic statement through the simplest of ways, engaging the viewer’s spatial awareness and perception while challenging societal assumptions of value. The use of discarded and mundane ephemera, such as toothpicks and bottle caps, along with concrete, rebar, electric fencing cable, and other industrial materials, intuitively develops the familiar to the point of the uncanny. For his first solo show in Italy and his first exhibition with the Eduardo Secci gallery, Soal has decided to investigate the legacy of Arte Povera and the connection he feels with artists such as Alberto Burri and Giuseppe Uncini, the precursor of the movement. The repeated motifs throughout this body of work are the residual, fissure, crack, tear, singe, burn, spill, and break. The artist is interested in how entropy manifests in the man-made: the organic presents itself as a renewable force capable of resisting it, but to which we must then also forego imposing purely our agenda. This relationship between intuition and intention revealing in the suggestions of intestinal and cerebral form is what propels his work. In an ongoing engagement with the material, Soal threaded salvaged beer bottle tops onto electric fencing cable encouraging its natural coil and twist to determine the form of the entire work. From a socio-political point of view, the presence of beer bottle tops strewn in the streets of Johannesburg and in their resemblance to entrails, speaks to a certain attitude towards consumption and its violent excesses. The writhing and serpentine nature of the work also calls to mind mythical figures such as Medusa and the Gorgons. In researching versions of the myth of Perseus and Medusa, the artist interprets it by contemplating the metaphor of the role of art in society. While the direct encounter with the Gorgon transforms the individual into stone, art can be the medium, the mirror or the shield through which we can face complex issues without becoming paralyzed by them. Compelling the viewer to question their own complicity within our society of excessive consumption and mass-production, Soal’s toothpicks works astound and confound the perception of this humble material. Foregrounding pressing ecological concerns, these works primarily attempt to expose the paradoxical relationship humankind has with nature, that of simultaneous dependence and domination. <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ea22b18afa30954464b3e615446aa1ee7b1d1f45c4bb6557ec33bb38f55c21d/Soal_Chris_2022_Gorgon_LR-1.jpg" data-mid="153016340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ea22b18afa30954464b3e615446aa1ee7b1d1f45c4bb6557ec33bb38f55c21d/Soal_Chris_2022_Gorgon_LR-1.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c0ed90269a4e57f6c419edae2ce13945874e3fcb899a0567e33c7b8e36af0b3/Soal_Chris_2022_Gorgon_LR-3.jpg" data-mid="153016343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c0ed90269a4e57f6c419edae2ce13945874e3fcb899a0567e33c7b8e36af0b3/Soal_Chris_2022_Gorgon_LR-3.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c258cbeda391da1eb33b2c2b3c6f19e72251aff5bf3efb3ade3f20671cc6234f/Soal_Chris_2022_Gorgon_LR-2.jpg" data-mid="153016341" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c258cbeda391da1eb33b2c2b3c6f19e72251aff5bf3efb3ade3f20671cc6234f/Soal_Chris_2022_Gorgon_LR-2.jpg" /> Gorgon,&nbsp;2022Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board119 x 145.5 x 13 cm <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a516ba45e7af499222635dbbad798e1275f6e80fdc0bee472828904bb299c728/Soal_Chris_2022_Spolia_LR-1.jpg" data-mid="153016362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a516ba45e7af499222635dbbad798e1275f6e80fdc0bee472828904bb299c728/Soal_Chris_2022_Spolia_LR-1.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b99c5a0e1b5cbe5e879027f2e41b44bd7bcd3b597492cfbb696c13e6622cf9c/Soal_Chris_2022_Spolia_LR-2.jpg" data-mid="153016363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b99c5a0e1b5cbe5e879027f2e41b44bd7bcd3b597492cfbb696c13e6622cf9c/Soal_Chris_2022_Spolia_LR-2.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30141080496998d33d7bc053f31749ba85bb0c5a0047c52c630d238b50d9ea25/Soal_Chris_2022_Spolia_LR-4.jpg" data-mid="153016365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30141080496998d33d7bc053f31749ba85bb0c5a0047c52c630d238b50d9ea25/Soal_Chris_2022_Spolia_LR-4.jpg" /> Spolia,&nbsp;2022Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar 142 x 146 x 14 cm <img width="7087" height="4724" width_o="7087" height_o="4724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82ac2cc94492b408c2126b2209ee28b48af9c5374ab1d4938bae050389d7f8e9/Exhibition-view--Remains-to-be-seen--Chris-Soal--2022--Eduardo-Secci-Milano--Courtesy-the-artist-and-Eduardo-Secci--Milan--Florence_2.jpg" data-mid="153016370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82ac2cc94492b408c2126b2209ee28b48af9c5374ab1d4938bae050389d7f8e9/Exhibition-view--Remains-to-be-seen--Chris-Soal--2022--Eduardo-Secci-Milano--Courtesy-the-artist-and-Eduardo-Secci--Milan--Florence_2.jpg" /> Remains to be seen | 2022 | Installation View <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67a08f937f2ff320f160f72614f75c527cee69bc7e9c598a3c46b49d4903a081/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-2.jpg" data-mid="153016357" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67a08f937f2ff320f160f72614f75c527cee69bc7e9c598a3c46b49d4903a081/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-2.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cabe465f60c52f420f12618920eba8cf7b773099b6e16582a6dc10b2093cdd34/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-4.jpg" data-mid="153016359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cabe465f60c52f420f12618920eba8cf7b773099b6e16582a6dc10b2093cdd34/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-4.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2333" width_o="3500" height_o="2333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d3fe20fc50103f69733b6fb91060fab039b815f742cb4a708237732fa6202eb/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-1.jpg" data-mid="153016356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d3fe20fc50103f69733b6fb91060fab039b815f742cb4a708237732fa6202eb/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-1.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40eaf2803cf320ec049106385445f8782d893aef679f4a6479e0ae4f9a84dc58/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-5.jpg" data-mid="153016360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40eaf2803cf320ec049106385445f8782d893aef679f4a6479e0ae4f9a84dc58/Soal_Chris_2022_Masquerade_LR-5.jpg" /> Masquerade,&nbsp;2022Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board201 x 283 x 32 cm <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b4f2f95dced3bdacab625f14774161a13002590f12695903f4a2fe700060cf8/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-5.jpg" data-mid="153016354" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b4f2f95dced3bdacab625f14774161a13002590f12695903f4a2fe700060cf8/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-5.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f4a7bf10715c1f4c3e0c63e831308c604c6b37ed85e00677d47c79e42f7c1bc/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-6.jpg" data-mid="153016355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f4a7bf10715c1f4c3e0c63e831308c604c6b37ed85e00677d47c79e42f7c1bc/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-6.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20d6681a8a7724e5ec8b4a7a9ff5812fab1ec8245eaebfad9b032daff2d9759b/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-4.jpg" data-mid="153016353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20d6681a8a7724e5ec8b4a7a9ff5812fab1ec8245eaebfad9b032daff2d9759b/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-4.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c9e40f7747547588472b1ce70ca6a0b450f120b557e26c55b0fbf552ca40cdc/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-3.jpg" data-mid="153016352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c9e40f7747547588472b1ce70ca6a0b450f120b557e26c55b0fbf552ca40cdc/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-3.jpg" /> Kindling,&nbsp;2022Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Ripstop Fabric, stretched on Obeche Wood Stretcher 175 x 153 x 25 cm <img width="2930" height="3500" width_o="2930" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ff5e9274eb9bc9858faf41900039a0bddaadabda36958ef05f3500cdf8aadec/Soal_Chris_2022_La-Peau-de-Chagrin_MR-1.jpg" data-mid="153042900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ff5e9274eb9bc9858faf41900039a0bddaadabda36958ef05f3500cdf8aadec/Soal_Chris_2022_La-Peau-de-Chagrin_MR-1.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f102f5b63b2763428178155eada2105ccad71bfa2292aaa6e5c6f8d30dec4d7f/Soal_Chris_2022_La-Peau-de-Chagrin_MR-2.jpg" data-mid="153042899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f102f5b63b2763428178155eada2105ccad71bfa2292aaa6e5c6f8d30dec4d7f/Soal_Chris_2022_La-Peau-de-Chagrin_MR-2.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44f4aaaee9a1dc431fd3c8af6a20297b3cee75e5f183368f9d3f949bfdb4419c/Soal_Chris_2022_La-Peau-de-Chagrin_MR-3.jpg" data-mid="153042898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44f4aaaee9a1dc431fd3c8af6a20297b3cee75e5f183368f9d3f949bfdb4419c/Soal_Chris_2022_La-Peau-de-Chagrin_MR-3.jpg" /> La Peau de Chagrin, 2022Eroded Sandpaper 61 x 53 cm Variable Edition of 5 <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c04c3c09776bcb7fbfde64b903aae7857a3ed2dbcd41ebe011d13f10606fbb4c/Soal_Chris_2022_Hyde_LR-4.jpg" data-mid="153016349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c04c3c09776bcb7fbfde64b903aae7857a3ed2dbcd41ebe011d13f10606fbb4c/Soal_Chris_2022_Hyde_LR-4.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66506d9a8701f808db804956f9bfe0001e8806d4b04b4676ba5efc8e4dc0fa8e/Soal_Chris_2022_Hyde_LR-3.jpg" data-mid="153016347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66506d9a8701f808db804956f9bfe0001e8806d4b04b4676ba5efc8e4dc0fa8e/Soal_Chris_2022_Hyde_LR-3.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b091e4b2ffc1c7da41b536a24923ef2829f2b0d5bca703728b6a2bbb262697ac/Soal_Chris_2022_Hyde_LR-2.jpg" data-mid="153016346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b091e4b2ffc1c7da41b536a24923ef2829f2b0d5bca703728b6a2bbb262697ac/Soal_Chris_2022_Hyde_LR-2.jpg" /> Hyde,&nbsp;2022Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Ripstop Fabric, stretched on Obeche Wood Stretcher 106 x 100 x 14 cm PRESS ︎ ARTICLE on Lampoon by Simoné Esterhuizen //Get the button 1 var mybutton = document.getElementById("myBtn"); // When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()}; function scrollFunction() { if (document.body.scrollTop > 1000 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 1000) { mybutton.style.display = "block"; } else { mybutton.style.display = "none"; } } // When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document function topFunction() { $("html, body").animate({scrollTop: "0"}); } https://chrissoal.com/Margins-of-Error Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:28:01 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Margins-of-Error Top Text Work Press MARGINS OF ERROR THE NIROX FOUNDATION - Sculpture Garden GROUP EXHIBITIONMAY - DECEMBER 2021 <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88e270ce8798fb1e0012a518fcdeaeec2e1997a02f14aa283b1d0a76b62c9b81/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_34.jpg" data-mid="117734948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88e270ce8798fb1e0012a518fcdeaeec2e1997a02f14aa283b1d0a76b62c9b81/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_34.jpg" /> Installation view of Relic (2019 - 2021), included in Margins of Error at The Nirox Sculpture Garden, Johannesburg Chris Soal’s first outdoor sculptural installation, Relic (2019 - 2021), consists of various sized concrete sections,installed in the landscape in numerous configurations,almost as if presenting these totemic forms in various states of decay. Drawing on his continuous body of work with toothpicks, the artist poured concrete over sculpted toothpick forms, before removing each toothpick, leaving being its haunting impression. The residual forms and textures of the surface are suggestive without being descriptive, drawing comparisons to barren topographies, dead coral, rough tree bark, and eroded marble — their abstraction leaving multiple avenues of interpretation open. Recognising that many public sculpture needs to contend with the problem of “the monument,” the decision to create columns, large and looming phallic forms, was intentional. It felt like a problem that couldn’t be avoided, and instead an issue that needed to be addressed. The construction of these concrete surfaces through thevoid impressions of toothpicks, a material so insignificant and ubiquitous, felt like a fitting way to undermine the power that structures so erected often attempt tocommunicate. Soal references Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Ozymandias” (1818): “I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear:My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.” Reminiscent of columns, Relic (2019 - 2021) suggests a link to ancient empires, globally. These totems of “the never ending human struggle to leave an impressionthat lingers longer than our lifespans”, calls the viewer to reflect on their complicity ina disordered hierarchy of values fuelled by consumerism, while prophesying of the potential doom that inevitably awaits a near-decadent society. It is no accident then that Relic is unveiled in what is called the Cradle of Humankind, a site well known forfossil finds. The decayed, fragmented and ruinous suggestion of the toothpick-less surface of the concrete might remind one of the forms in Max Ernst’s iconic “Europe after the Rain” (1940 - 1942), a direct challenge to the modernist aspirations that architecture’s pride in concrete held. Furthermore, the concrete recalls the proximity of Johannesburg in the Eden-like context of the landscaped park. One of the paradoxes of ruins is how their collapse opens them up, exposing the interior to the exterior. If a present monument is a future ruin, then Relic poses the question not of what is present, but of what is absent. How then can the evidence of things unseen provoke us as viewers to look beyond ourselves? How could a ruin expose our interior spaces, our hidden motives, so that we may not be left, ruined? <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ea167d7791b93f18bc2b00a96438214097a57829a915135cc97a029739f1b5c/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_03.jpg" data-mid="117734940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ea167d7791b93f18bc2b00a96438214097a57829a915135cc97a029739f1b5c/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_03.jpg" /> Relic, 2021Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete ReliefsDimensions Variable <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b850f4af34d8b38a2ea0ce1a55976ac6dd1175e4feff4f0ae3438e7f9de9ed0/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_28.jpg" data-mid="117734945" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b850f4af34d8b38a2ea0ce1a55976ac6dd1175e4feff4f0ae3438e7f9de9ed0/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_28.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a547cfa49a99a95aca6ac07d5cc09b66d3d3a7e861cea16ed65e2339bc7e2d5/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_26.jpg" data-mid="117734944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a547cfa49a99a95aca6ac07d5cc09b66d3d3a7e861cea16ed65e2339bc7e2d5/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_26.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab0a20b38df8cd615573c35abe6e99bb6c3df690678e935615153daa350fb879/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_013.jpg" data-mid="117734942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab0a20b38df8cd615573c35abe6e99bb6c3df690678e935615153daa350fb879/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_013.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af225833ddbe05009d98ee2d14eaece14bacee16a2a7eb3c635fdae54260cc71/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_29.jpg" data-mid="117734946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af225833ddbe05009d98ee2d14eaece14bacee16a2a7eb3c635fdae54260cc71/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_29.jpg" /> Relic, 2021Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete ReliefsDimensions Variable <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcd83a84f3b913c81abf0d482b175ed33ab12978475d4f232a9630bb8c8747ad/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_38.jpg" data-mid="117734954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcd83a84f3b913c81abf0d482b175ed33ab12978475d4f232a9630bb8c8747ad/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_38.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09bda94f1a48b0fba98d6fbbeb355e171a9d99a586daa4f47b6cdc924472fe9e/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_41.jpg" data-mid="117734957" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09bda94f1a48b0fba98d6fbbeb355e171a9d99a586daa4f47b6cdc924472fe9e/WEBRES_Margins-of-Error_Nirox_2021_Installation-View_41.jpg" /> Relic, 2021Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete ReliefsDimensions Variable The artist acknowledges the support of the The Claire and Edoardo Villa Will Trust, whose grant made much of the production behind this work possible. Acknowledgement also goes to the Soal Studio team: Jonathan Illunga, Israel Sambuka, Dean van Wyk, to VM Engineering, and many others who have been integral to bringing this project into existence. PRESS ︎ ARTICLE on Design Indaba ︎ ARTICLE on Sunday Times by Sanet Oberholzer ︎ ARTICLE on WANTED by Julia Freemantle //Get the button 1 var mybutton = document.getElementById("myBtn"); // When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()}; function scrollFunction() { if (document.body.scrollTop > 1000 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 1000) { mybutton.style.display = "block"; } else { mybutton.style.display = "none"; } } // When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document function topFunction() { $("html, body").animate({scrollTop: "0"}); } https://chrissoal.com/Selected-works Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:13:52 +0000 Chris Soal https://chrissoal.com/Selected-works Top SELECTED WORKS <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23b579c9c386f770e3bab299d5567a7d6db2258ea8e0c9c63738cb6f80f570b2/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_15.jpg" data-mid="218660292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23b579c9c386f770e3bab299d5567a7d6db2258ea8e0c9c63738cb6f80f570b2/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_15.jpg" /> HideBamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Industrial Fabric on Board. 330 x 475 x 35 cm <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3845bde170c768131450995cf25315a7af4b3f73aff67e40df63bac04dcce8d6/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_2.jpg" data-mid="218660293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3845bde170c768131450995cf25315a7af4b3f73aff67e40df63bac04dcce8d6/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_2.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b4e17265f1d5a5a7ae0b179274b04c37fffddf8c398b0c9fd2a9284b33e3d1f/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_8.jpg" data-mid="218660299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b4e17265f1d5a5a7ae0b179274b04c37fffddf8c398b0c9fd2a9284b33e3d1f/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_8.jpg" />Hide&nbsp;(Detail) <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e2d9457bd8df1acd885e3589b73f446e0488ecf3f7f5f5d40bc7cd4c401502a/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_5.jpg" data-mid="218660296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e2d9457bd8df1acd885e3589b73f446e0488ecf3f7f5f5d40bc7cd4c401502a/Soal_Chris_2024_Hide_LR_5.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e9dbae259a1b56a225197fd73e4231cfaa25f9367c091b35fc8e4d8acbae8eb/Soal_Chris_2024_Inferno_HR_1.jpg" data-mid="218660445" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e9dbae259a1b56a225197fd73e4231cfaa25f9367c091b35fc8e4d8acbae8eb/Soal_Chris_2024_Inferno_HR_1.jpg" /> Inferno Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo Birch Wood Toothpicks held in Polyurethane Sealant, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar. 158 x 145 x 25 cm <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f47ff16feaeaad2a34be7ce41820258ebc09afe2fea002d469b1d368ec144f4/Soal_Chris_2024_Inferno_HR_3.jpg" data-mid="218660572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f47ff16feaeaad2a34be7ce41820258ebc09afe2fea002d469b1d368ec144f4/Soal_Chris_2024_Inferno_HR_3.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69d7e2e2f7d1f00fbdd08db6bad15c5398cfd18cbd7a882fb6cb6532e121421a/Soal_Chris_2024_Inferno_HR_5.jpg" data-mid="218660582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69d7e2e2f7d1f00fbdd08db6bad15c5398cfd18cbd7a882fb6cb6532e121421a/Soal_Chris_2024_Inferno_HR_5.jpg" /> Inferno (Detail), <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c4a0d37a2f4f9f23e376379df58e3d543b92de94823a913c0f815b74ec3ed0b/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_2.jpg" data-mid="218660315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c4a0d37a2f4f9f23e376379df58e3d543b92de94823a913c0f815b74ec3ed0b/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_2.jpg" /> The expanse (To see the world in a grain of sand)Woodblock Impression on Eroded Sandpaper Rolls held by Acid- Free Tape, to be secured in place with Stainless Steel Pins. Sandpaper rolls: Norton P180. 360 x 230 x 130 cm <img width="1440" height="2160" width_o="1440" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9436cfa9ef399ff827bd2d28ed7dea962f450861690287ad1a8a67ea42a6ab8e/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_5.jpg" data-mid="218660318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9436cfa9ef399ff827bd2d28ed7dea962f450861690287ad1a8a67ea42a6ab8e/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_5.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cbebbab6855f22031411089e56d0e9005de1805887a4bcfaa1fc1107636069d/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_6.jpg" data-mid="218660317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cbebbab6855f22031411089e56d0e9005de1805887a4bcfaa1fc1107636069d/Soal_Chris_2024_The-expanse-To-see-the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand_LR_6.jpg" /> The expanse (To see the world in a grain of sand) (Detail) <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eae413d377fb77c26a7947ca3c55dd06d218ccbd79224734a81fa9fce19bea5e/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_8.jpg" data-mid="218660322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eae413d377fb77c26a7947ca3c55dd06d218ccbd79224734a81fa9fce19bea5e/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_8.jpg" />The things that only time will teach you (Detail) <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d6b44119cb95ddda942dc5cdf0428bc1abf217dc0cc3f67612c2e9a59bb01a6/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_2.jpg" data-mid="219077148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d6b44119cb95ddda942dc5cdf0428bc1abf217dc0cc3f67612c2e9a59bb01a6/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_2.jpg" /> The things that only time will teach youUsed Sandpaper Discs adhered with Polyurethane Sealant held by Steel Structure, Formation on wheels. 271 x 137 x 174 cm <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6001e45e62c825fa9730a9c11acda0af3c997737e3d5c08362ed8bb86a83d88b/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_7.jpg" data-mid="218660326" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6001e45e62c825fa9730a9c11acda0af3c997737e3d5c08362ed8bb86a83d88b/Soal_Chris_2024_The-things-that-only-time-will-teach-you_LR_7.jpg" /> The things that only time will teach you (Detail) <img width="1334" height="2000" width_o="1334" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a4080d05ce81e3405143228a51ed6fcf8f369d2f68a444c757ed04c7e68ce79/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_1.jpg" data-mid="218660336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a4080d05ce81e3405143228a51ed6fcf8f369d2f68a444c757ed04c7e68ce79/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_1.jpg" /> VestigeGlass Fibre Reinforced Concrete Relief Cast. 72 x 172 x 13 cm <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a05648663f6f3d4d83a22c5ba00875d5e4cf9d1eb5277c7ce7e43ebfb215c97b/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_4.jpg" data-mid="218660339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a05648663f6f3d4d83a22c5ba00875d5e4cf9d1eb5277c7ce7e43ebfb215c97b/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_4.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3664dadf7fa22016852c1de2e7e06a2bb1930b61eb2d0a47039925bab7221f03/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_7.jpg" data-mid="218660342" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3664dadf7fa22016852c1de2e7e06a2bb1930b61eb2d0a47039925bab7221f03/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_7.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d23e35a722019d2cfe1c96d0021c79f11bb5b98cf6c5379e2d4a07d681d573f/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_5.jpg" data-mid="218660340" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d23e35a722019d2cfe1c96d0021c79f11bb5b98cf6c5379e2d4a07d681d573f/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_5.jpg" />Vestige (Detail) <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e15548595f3c42dea90c67e41117d4cd71939a3981c400778bbae27108a2443/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_3.jpg" data-mid="218660338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e15548595f3c42dea90c67e41117d4cd71939a3981c400778bbae27108a2443/Soal_Chris_2024_Vestige_LR_3.jpg" /> <img width="5170" height="3447" width_o="5170" height_o="3447" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cb9a70e4af7ed2dac71dcff96a95101cad09ecca06386c47e0a22ce42391428/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_2.jpg" data-mid="218660328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cb9a70e4af7ed2dac71dcff96a95101cad09ecca06386c47e0a22ce42391428/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_2.jpg" />ThresholdBamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Industrial Fabric. 320 x 300 x 45 cm <img width="3560" height="5340" width_o="3560" height_o="5340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c36cb4ee41c8cee4a6e9434b79a3eb65259f05456d09281c87de183638fab711/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_5.jpg" data-mid="218660329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c36cb4ee41c8cee4a6e9434b79a3eb65259f05456d09281c87de183638fab711/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_5.jpg" />Threshold (Detail) <img width="3560" height="5340" width_o="3560" height_o="5340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77f301b0cbec834ff4d548b9950a44a640f687f8eb1b6cd7cff285cd4705544c/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_9.jpg" data-mid="218660330" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77f301b0cbec834ff4d548b9950a44a640f687f8eb1b6cd7cff285cd4705544c/Soal_Chris_2023_Threshold_HR_9.jpg" /> <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5e5d0878702fb70588bbe6726d9bdcb4a7d904024bb3e2a438346a91e732063/Soal_Chris_2022_Critical-Mass_MR1.jpg" data-mid="218660367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5e5d0878702fb70588bbe6726d9bdcb4a7d904024bb3e2a438346a91e732063/Soal_Chris_2022_Critical-Mass_MR1.jpg" /> Critical MassDiscarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, with Burnt and Unburnt Bamboo and Birch Wood Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Industrial Fabric on Board. 240 x 160 x 24 cm <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15bfd8369a19fc1ce8a0c16c1bb3de73f53f2c8b824ff60926871799d318655e/Soal_Chris_2022_Critical-Mass_MR5.jpg" data-mid="218660371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15bfd8369a19fc1ce8a0c16c1bb3de73f53f2c8b824ff60926871799d318655e/Soal_Chris_2022_Critical-Mass_MR5.jpg" />Critical Mass (Detail) <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b79b904406ca57349ecb4462317132c604099efeaabc81c5f83636c729b80e4/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-6.jpg" data-mid="218660314" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b79b904406ca57349ecb4462317132c604099efeaabc81c5f83636c729b80e4/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-6.jpg" />KindlingBurnt and Unburnt Bamboo Toothpicks, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Ripstop Fabric, stretched on Obeche Wood Stretcher.106 x 100 x 14 cm <img width="2333" height="3500" width_o="2333" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09a2defeb385277d6dcfb741ff138b62b3bac5fb8109e485abc2241fa4513a4e/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-4.jpg" data-mid="218660312" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09a2defeb385277d6dcfb741ff138b62b3bac5fb8109e485abc2241fa4513a4e/Soal_Chris_2022_Kindling_LR-4.jpg" />Kindling (Detail) GargoyleDiscarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board, Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Used Motor Car Oil and Rebar. 154 x 127 x 14 cm <img width="1031" height="1547" width_o="1031" height_o="1547" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/575cba6d024f7621e692c1cf34a96c9f06f2bb258dba4a8cbf02d63fa241c40f/Soal_Chris_2023_Gargoyle_LR1.jpg" data-mid="218660347" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/575cba6d024f7621e692c1cf34a96c9f06f2bb258dba4a8cbf02d63fa241c40f/Soal_Chris_2023_Gargoyle_LR1.jpg" /> <img width="1031" height="1547" width_o="1031" height_o="1547" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87953431e37369b573a04699f8e0700811c39e1dd283fdcb2a2250bd0c872176/Soal_Chris_2023_Gargoyle_LR5.jpg" data-mid="218660350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87953431e37369b573a04699f8e0700811c39e1dd283fdcb2a2250bd0c872176/Soal_Chris_2023_Gargoyle_LR5.jpg" /> <img width="1678" height="2517" width_o="1678" height_o="2517" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1322d5eaa45e65892855c4ea5488d5b5c474fbfcf8fda2007368832a3ea0556d/Soal_Chris_2023_Gargoyle_LR7.jpg" data-mid="218660352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1322d5eaa45e65892855c4ea5488d5b5c474fbfcf8fda2007368832a3ea0556d/Soal_Chris_2023_Gargoyle_LR7.jpg" /> Gargoyle (Detail) <img width="1707" height="2560" width_o="1707" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29f687258479b9917e2638119fb9971e76db59e4b78639054941633df95c3ac2/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_1.jpg" data-mid="218660355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29f687258479b9917e2638119fb9971e76db59e4b78639054941633df95c3ac2/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_1.jpg" />&nbsp; PanikiFound Cowrie Shell, Discarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board. 194 x 89 x 10 cm <img width="1707" height="2560" width_o="1707" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66cb4634fd378a04ac859f929ef0e1ce415c95a7a37895170dc8d1a8b5e2bc33/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_6.jpg" data-mid="218660360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66cb4634fd378a04ac859f929ef0e1ce415c95a7a37895170dc8d1a8b5e2bc33/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_6.jpg" />Paniki (Detail) <img width="1707" height="2560" width_o="1707" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7d96daa16fd058fdb927cec4f9f0c1ef5c8c470490be5ead080256f56f43596/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_4.jpg" data-mid="218660358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7d96daa16fd058fdb927cec4f9f0c1ef5c8c470490be5ead080256f56f43596/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_4.jpg" /> <img width="1707" height="2560" width_o="1707" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63504a2d0bc3a4bb93d1ad73e9b5493076cff2d60ca14c52bd3a105a8331903f/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_5.jpg" data-mid="218660365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63504a2d0bc3a4bb93d1ad73e9b5493076cff2d60ca14c52bd3a105a8331903f/Soal_Chris_2022_Paniki_LR_5.jpg" /> <img width="2691" height="1796" width_o="2691" height_o="1796" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c6e9b45c5fa00e8bb3299e83779988bb96c3e6610e6980822f7f0f9d8ecbe45/Soal_Chris_2021_As-below-so-above_.jpg" data-mid="218660381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c6e9b45c5fa00e8bb3299e83779988bb96c3e6610e6980822f7f0f9d8ecbe45/Soal_Chris_2021_As-below-so-above_.jpg" />As below so aboveDiscarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board. 240 x 190 x 15 cm <img width="2719" height="1814" width_o="2719" height_o="1814" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64055988b79e0c281cec6225239fffdbe3f4cfb7ba872a4dc62f938b21347e87/Soal_Chris_2021_As-below-so-above_4.jpg" data-mid="218660383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64055988b79e0c281cec6225239fffdbe3f4cfb7ba872a4dc62f938b21347e87/Soal_Chris_2021_As-below-so-above_4.jpg" /><img width="3500" height="2336" width_o="3500" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e26f7aabf5c60cabc8855fc9f9bcc3b74a0c1cff32ab071b3a939bc4fa95bd1e/WITW_20210121_0333-1.jpg" data-mid="218660385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e26f7aabf5c60cabc8855fc9f9bcc3b74a0c1cff32ab071b3a939bc4fa95bd1e/WITW_20210121_0333-1.jpg" />As below so above (Detail) <img width="3500" height="5244" width_o="3500" height_o="5244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c909c3709863f57820d777b2ed5bcf78abc49cd2bc637396962189242777a56/WITW-20200127_0702-1_V2.jpg" data-mid="218660391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c909c3709863f57820d777b2ed5bcf78abc49cd2bc637396962189242777a56/WITW-20200127_0702-1_V2.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="3500" height="5244" width_o="3500" height_o="5244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef4e576244d30f0ecb9532bec0501368413ab190267d3635e5316c2e265560ea/WITW-20200127_0705-1.jpg" data-mid="218660389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef4e576244d30f0ecb9532bec0501368413ab190267d3635e5316c2e265560ea/WITW-20200127_0705-1.jpg" /> SpoliaDiscarded Beer Bottle Caps threaded onto Electric Fencing Cable, held in Polyurethane Sealant on Board. 150 x 73 x 15 cm <img width="3500" height="2336" width_o="3500" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77979270ed9b3362c52f74227ee9b229624893837fb8a78b9337c07cb8b9a6d6/WITW-20200127_0717-1.jpg" data-mid="218660388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77979270ed9b3362c52f74227ee9b229624893837fb8a78b9337c07cb8b9a6d6/WITW-20200127_0717-1.jpg" /> Spolia, (Detail) <img width="3500" height="5244" width_o="3500" height_o="5244" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fff3690a359f947f467c9fa4ab1349680dd603f94f4bc126d3826baca3962219/WITW_20210121_0395-1.jpg" data-mid="218660754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fff3690a359f947f467c9fa4ab1349680dd603f94f4bc126d3826baca3962219/WITW_20210121_0395-1.jpg" /> Axis MundiBirch Wood, Concrete, Steel.170 x 100 x 110 cm <img width="3500" height="2336" width_o="3500" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9e8ea0e3ad1b8997a3ff88ba56b969500af3d857cddd6f914af69d67fd3dd41/WITW_20210121_0421-1.jpg" data-mid="218660767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9e8ea0e3ad1b8997a3ff88ba56b969500af3d857cddd6f914af69d67fd3dd41/WITW_20210121_0421-1.jpg" /><img width="3500" height="2336" width_o="3500" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2179bf8b7eb6d328adde2fb95b2fc965f1b4e868b0824b1182902b279034340/WITW-20200127_0665-1.jpg" data-mid="218660770" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2179bf8b7eb6d328adde2fb95b2fc965f1b4e868b0824b1182902b279034340/WITW-20200127_0665-1.jpg" /> Axis Mundi&nbsp;(Detail) <img width="4242" height="6364" width_o="4242" height_o="6364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31ba84ad844d95c93e84dd8f9715521337e5617560ab0fb30e03b010db7a5c8c/Soal_Chris_2018_Speak-the-truth-even-if-your-voice-shakes_HR_1.jpg" data-mid="218660397" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31ba84ad844d95c93e84dd8f9715521337e5617560ab0fb30e03b010db7a5c8c/Soal_Chris_2018_Speak-the-truth-even-if-your-voice-shakes_HR_1.jpg" /> Speak the truth even if your voice shakesBamboo Toothpicks, Burnt Wood from the 2017 Knysna Fires, South Africa160 x 23 x 20 cm <img width="4388" height="6582" width_o="4388" height_o="6582" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/496b95c1296bdf08c6566101717a5624bbb315f1846f334be2c52c40bca956af/Soal_Chris_2018_Speak-the-truth-even-if-your-voice-shakes_HR_6.jpg" data-mid="218660402" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/496b95c1296bdf08c6566101717a5624bbb315f1846f334be2c52c40bca956af/Soal_Chris_2018_Speak-the-truth-even-if-your-voice-shakes_HR_6.jpg" /> <img width="4388" height="6582" width_o="4388" height_o="6582" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b98ab660561f8b6cb0a72ef7ff0c3f76103479989e6e1f52a255fe461486bd13/Soal_Chris_2018_Speak-the-truth-even-if-your-voice-shakes_HR_4.jpg" data-mid="218660400" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b98ab660561f8b6cb0a72ef7ff0c3f76103479989e6e1f52a255fe461486bd13/Soal_Chris_2018_Speak-the-truth-even-if-your-voice-shakes_HR_4.jpg" /> Speak the truth even if your voice shakes&nbsp;(Detail) //Get the button 1 var mybutton = document.getElementById("myBtn"); // When the user scrolls down 20px from the top of the document, show the button window.onscroll = function() {scrollFunction()}; function scrollFunction() { if (document.body.scrollTop > 1000 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 1000) { mybutton.style.display = "block"; } else { mybutton.style.display = "none"; } } // When the user clicks on the button, scroll to the top of the document function topFunction() { $("html, body").animate({scrollTop: "0"}); }