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Elf Tumi
Solo exhibition in Kubb
Opening October 9, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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The material that speaks to me; steel, velvet, plywood, bricks, flowers, clay and sponge are materials that yield, endure, remember and have texture. Materials that create charge in the space I am always looking for the place where brittle and strong can live side by side - where humor and weight meet, play and seriousness and darkness and light have a conversation.

The pieces are often on the verge of being defensive walls and delicate body memory A steel wall on wheels gradually shifts the boundaries to A cloth of plywood that holds a delicacy beneath a hard surface A small layer between bricks plays a quiet tone Fragmented clay sculptures rest on steel The pieces want to emerge, allowing themselves to be seen, but still hiding behind the fabric.

Materials have their own memory, and working with them is a conversation with a body that understands more than wordsI build, break down, try again, listen, confess The practices and process often tell me something that I had not been aware of or looked at sufficiently before I am constantly between songs, between craftsmanship and thought and between hiding or showing I want to know what lies behind, where people are coming from and what makes them who they are todayI believe art is a place where matter and feeling become one, heavy is soft and sensitive is strong.
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