on aggression and resistance
a monument of anti-patriarchal anger
Punch Me Daddy is a series of ceramic sculptures in which the artist intensively punches the still wet, unfired clay blocks of 10-70 kilos over a long period of time (she trains in different forms of martial arts).
While doing so, she wears old family rings or others with symbols such as the head of Medusa or the claw of Inanna.
While doing so, she wears old family rings or others with symbols such as the head of Medusa or the claw of Inanna.
The origin of violence and aggression is overtaken by the slow, patient process of hollowing, burning and glazing the object.
In the end, this leads to crystal-like mountains of colours and structures that blur into one another, in which the imprints of the fists now shine in gentle curves.
In the end, this leads to crystal-like mountains of colours and structures that blur into one another, in which the imprints of the fists now shine in gentle curves.
She has welded a stand from reinforcing steel, a material that usually acts as a skeleton to reinforce the concrete in buildings, on which the sculpture has been placed.