Cannot stop looking at these new Roger Hiorns foam sculptures. 14 of them will end up in our drone show ’A screaming comes…

Cannot stop looking at these new Roger Hiorns foam sculptures. 14 of them will end up in our drone show ‘A screaming comes across the sky’, that opens at LABoral in Gijón on 10 October.

From the exhibition description:

Roger Hiorns’Untitledsculptures are a gathering of bodies hanging from the ceiling that produce a never-ending stream of foam out of thin air. The sculptures contain ordinary bath foam, and air is generated from a small network of air compressors. Over time, pillars of foam slowly rise from the top.

The sculptures have a haunting beauty to them, drawing the viewer in, albeit with an eerie sense of alertness and a hint of dread. Together, they ”suggest a sort of independence,” says art critic JJ Charlesworth, “a separation from the world of those who see them, as if they have a purpose, or at least a story behind their existence, that exists despite the context in which they are encountered.”

The process of seemingly purposeless and endless creation and destruction are a poetic reflection on the networks drones rely upon. The sculptures could be seen as both the drones, as the mutilated bodies left after the network has struck.

All photos courtesy of Roger Hiorns and Corvi Mora Gallery, London.