About the 3-dimensional works

Open the door and enter a world of strange machines. They have been dormant, but a switch is all it takes to power them on and that's when the wonder starts

Motivated by a desire to construct a self-performing artifact, a Corpus Generis endowed with a life of its own, these works hearken to the mystery of the body in many respects. These are structures one walks around, formations that call for a polyfocal vision and a body’s embrace of space as its ultimate love affair.

This emphasis on embodiment comes with a sense of wonder, a path that invites us to follow the intrinsic logic of objects, behaving in ways that disclose many an unsuspected consonance.

Although a departure from earlier works, they come to remedy a crisis befalling the image, its concept-driven immateriality, its reality-producing redundancy, its role in the formation and maintenance of subjectivity.

Coming into contact with these works elicits a rare sense of wonder. They project an autonomous presence themselves, a quality of existing outside their creator not just as representational or functional tools but especially as phenomena. Ely Tahan thinks of them as both noumena and phenomena, which describes the reach of their mystery.

A boundless amount of fun, unexpected details and thought-provoking associations make each of these works an object to discover with heart and mind.

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