Flora Duley
About
LIVES AND WORKS IN LONDON AND HAYLING ISLAND, UK
BA HONS FINE ART : UAL,Chelsea College of Art
RCA Sculpture 2024
Flora Duley’s sculptural practice includes social interaction, dialogue and performativity to investigate the world of art mediation and present a critique of institutional public engagement and art education. Looking at sculpture as a social context, the work becomes a tool for interrelation, bringing in the everyday, using collective moments in social ways to play on the automation of the institution, of learning, to question hierarchy, and set up situations that are playful, communal and experimental.
Turning a critical eye on the contexts that define, even crush, societies, from economics and laws to rules and norms, Duley’s work responds to these larger concerns by turning them into absurd situations, from table tennis matches to an opera set made up of yoga bricks. This theatrical, playful approach is in turn mirrored in the visual language of the sculptures, emphasising touch, texture and colour in the yoga bricks, neon balls, mats, stretch bands and other equipment, the remnants of a material consumerist game.
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