Sorin Bath

What if the sculptures were alive, and staring right back at you?

My practice looks at object vitality, using tubes and wires to create worm-like sculptures that sit between industrial and natural forms, weird / monstrous / unhuman. I use animatronics to make motorised sculptures that breathe, twitch, move, to push for an shift away from the inert and passive artwork, and step towards an uncanny, pseudo-living artwork. 

restless worms on restless legs (2024)

I draw on new materialist theories of Object-Oriented Ontology and vital materialism, as well as Donna Haraway's notion of the cyborg. The 'cyborg' observes how technological advances have blurred the distinction between the organism and the machine, so that now 'our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert' (Haraway, 1985).

cyborg breathes : vitalism glows (2024)

My practice involves a series of iteratives installations. I continuously alter my sculptures' forms and refine their coded motorised movement in response to each installation. My speculative drawings drive my practice, often made in response to industrial and technological found objects. The result is one of ever-evolving, mutating installations, breathing and twitching and ready to invade the gallery space.

'It’s a dangerous thing for an organization not to be sure which of the objects in its custody may be considered to be living.'

- Olga Ravn, The Employees

restless cyborgs : an assemblage (2024)

cyborg-ouboros (2024)