lumpen objects

Vinchen

Jan 29 - Feb 19, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 29 from 5 -9pm

Vinchen’s lumpen objects is a sampling of sculptural objects that will inhabit the yard at MASS. These sculptures, comprised mostly from abandoned materials salvaged by the artist and reframed into forms that question waste, disparity, and excess..

lumpen objects exist in opposition to affluence, a rejection of a fetishization of “perfection” stemming from desires to possess the flawless and the rare. I emphasize materials and marks which accentuate their common or ordinariness. I pair discarded and undesirable goods with abandoned materials to make abstract assemblage, sculpture, and installation that works to question the disparity between the soiled and stained, and the clean and pristine.

These works are primarily comprised of common and crude materials sourced by salvaging refuse abandoned by highway laborers along the side of the road, parts lost from passing cars, and the glittering garbage of luxury condos. Put together using ad hoc processes such as crushing, denting, tearing, and binding, these works are stained and spilled-on, both by intent and accident, accumulating layers of sediment and cracking. Crusted in earth that continues to crumble from them, these works are dirty. Composed from the dregs of dumpsters, these sculptures will degrade throughout the duration of the exhibition, fulfilling the fate they would have otherwise followed without my intervention.