The Plinth is a monument to impermanence and serves as a platform on which the artist is temporarily given free reign. The Plinth is both an opportunity and a practical response to the difficult process of achieving ‘recognition’ as an artist. It is important for an artist’s career to be exhibited in a museum. To support these careers, we want to give everyone the same chance. The plinth is yours. (https://smak.be/en/news/de-sokkel)
"clay objects hold up a plinth" (2021)
A plinth is historically used to place things, artworks and sometimes even people on, and separate them from the ground. The artist intervenes with a number of handsqueezed pieces of clay, thereby recontextualizing the function of the object; as well as offering the plinth an opportunity to feel what its like to float, to stand taller than normal, to be uplifted from its status as “a-thing-that-holds”, and become “a-thing-that’s-held”.
A plinth is historically used to place things, artworks and sometimes even people on, and separate them from the ground. The artist intervenes with a number of handsqueezed pieces of clay, thereby recontextualizing the function of the object; as well as offering the plinth an opportunity to feel what its like to float, to stand taller than normal, to be uplifted from its status as “a-thing-that-holds”, and become “a-thing-that’s-held”.
