Sally von Rosen
Rind (Motherform), 2025
Bronze, patina, wax,
Unique
45 x 27 x 16 cm
(17 3/4 x 10 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Von Rosen’s sculpture holds a tension that is both poised and precarious. It suggests rather than
concludes: limbs caught mid-motion, curves that carry tension forward. Thorns unsettle its sinuous
shape, introducing tension without breaking the form. ‚Rind (Motherform)‘ evokes the trace of a lived,
animated body without fully assuming it, drawing the viewer into a somatic relation with what is shifting,
fragmented, and unresolved. Though it asserts an insistent presence it remains open to projection and
psychological charge. Her sculptural vocabulary unfolds through texture and gesture, speaking to
longing, absence, and transference. Von Rosen, who is informed by post-minimalist, surrealist, and
feminist traditions, approaches sculpture as a site of affective encounter, where sensation precedes
interpretation and contradiction becomes generative. Her work seems to emerge from somewhere
between epochs, recalling primal experiences of birth, death, separation, and transformation.
As with memory or myth, it does not resolve; it lingers, mutates, and returns. In this way, the body in movement becomes a vessel for affect, transition, and the cyclical forces that it carries.
Sally von Rosen’s work is part of our current exhibition at the gallery:
L‘ennui
Sally von Rosen & Johannes Seluga
Sept. 19 - Nov. 08
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