Roger Hiorns
The works are successful if they are self-contained and need nothing else. They exist by their own language.
Roger Hiorns via tate.org.uk
Roger Hiorns (1975, United Kingdom) is an artist whose sculptures investigate material and form in the broadest sense. He uses processes in which he himself has no influence on the eventual appearance of the work. A characteristic for Hiorns' working method is the combination of two basic elements, which are simultaneously opposite and supplementing each other: ceramic pots with moving foam, metal with fire, a car engine with growing crystals, steel with perfume, even glass fiber with brain matter. The relation between the movable and the immovable, the living and the dead yields an undeniable tension in his work. Like a modern-day alchemist Hiorns transforms the objects and materials to give them a new function and meaning.
