The Poetics of Materials: In Conversation with Yarli Allison Lam
I Wish You Pluffy Pluffy , Slade Show 2017, London, UK / a discussion with the artist around the relationships between the body and sculpture making, between emotional experience and the use of materials, nomadicity, language, and performance. Made for the Slade Show 2017, Yarli’s multimedia installation I Wish You Pluffy Pluffy originates from an indescribable feeling of drifting that the artist endured throughout her nomadic life. Standing in-between the meticulously assembled and playfully incomplete, this work functions as coping mechanisms to the sense of insecurity via the process of its making and the imaginary narratives attached. The diversity of materials in her works often speaks out the complexity of the psychological and emotional experience. Yarli A. Lam (b.1988) is a Canadian-born Hong Kong artist based in London. She graduated in 2017 with a MFA in Sculpture from The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London...