Silicone and Mixed Media Sculpture
ORGANISMO
2010
ORGANISMO is a light sculpture created by Grimanesa Amorós which was inspired by her Peruvian background and Peru’s natural wonders.
When I am at home near the ocean and see jellyfish on the sand, I reflect on a primordial moment, when life began. Water, ammonia and methane bubbling with heat, light and electricity. This series embodies certain physical qualities that visually and tactilely evoke organic embryonic shapes as well as silicone implants. It is both sexual and asexual, natural and unnatural, alive and inanimate.
MCuando estoy en mi casa cerca al mar y contemplo las medusas en la arena reflexiono acerca momento primordial cuando la vida empezó. Agua, armonía y metano burbujeando con el calor, la luz y la electricidad. Esta serie expresa algunas cualidades físicas que evocan visual y táctilmente formas orgánicas de embriones así como implantes de silicona. Es a la vez sexuada y asexuada, natural y artificial, viva e inanimada.