Statement
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Denise Treizman creates sculptures and installations combining found objects, ready-made materials, ceramics, weavings and lights. Through a practice of gleaning and repurposing, she accumulates materials with no specific purpose in mind, except having them at hand and available to subtly shape the creation of her works.
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Recurrent materials like yoga balls, pool noodles, glitter, ropes, hula-hoops, but also handwoven weavings, get reused over and over in time. What was once presented as finished work can easily later on become a prompt for a new work. Nothing is permanent, everything transforms. Her process is at once an act of artistic ownership over her materials as well as a playful exploration of the infinite possibilities that they afford her.
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Treizman critically examines hyper-consumerism, but at the same time, she paradoxically participates in it, relying on commercial goods and throwaway culture to make her work. She exposes her own way of dealing with excess: on one hand, she questions the real need for vibrantly patterned single-use materials, like pink flamingo-printed duct tape, or violet bubble wrap, to exist. On the other hand, she finds these playful materials to be absolutely irresistible. Her work becomes a reflection on mass-produced society and a space where criticism and fascination coexist.
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