Remy Faint’s sculptures bring together vessels, limbs and animal forms, creating strange hybrid objects that appear excavated, reassembled and alive.
Remy Faint creates works that feel both ancient and alive, drawing on histories of figurative sculpture, decorative arts and archaeological objects. For Sydney Contemporary, he presents two works titled Vessel with Leg alongside Tiger (reassembled), a sculpture that reworks one of his earlier ceramic tiger cubs. Across these works, Faint brings together vessel forms, animal bodies, limbs and fragments into unstable sculptural hybrids, as though familiar forms have been broken apart and reassembled into new bodies. Their glazed surfaces evoke aged ceramics, skin, armour and ornament, while their handmade plinths heighten the tension between artefact, display and contemporary sculpture.
Remy Faint’s work can also be seen at Ace Hotel (31 July – 29 October) and in the solo exhibition, A Site of Unfolding at UNSW Galleries (3 September – 22 November).
“I am interested in how simple forms can accumulate associations over time, shifting between the body, the landscape and the artefact, while drawing on vernaculars that recur across cultures and histories. I want these forms to feel as though they’ve existed longer than I have while simultaneously being new, as if they’ve surfaced briefly before disappearing back into another history.”
Remy Faint
About the Artist
Remy Faint is a Sydney-based artist working across painting, sculpture, ceramics and installation. His practice engages with global histories of abstraction and material culture, often referencing objects connected to his Chinese heritage to explore exchange, visibility and hybrid forms of artistic production.
Presented by CASSANDRA BIRD
About Installations
Installations presents ambitious contemporary art throughout Carriageworks, and for the first time, extends into the city. The program of 14 projects features sculpture, textiles, painting, photography, kinetic forms, and public interventions, with works that are generous and immediate but also ask us to look more closely at the social, ecological, and cultural systems shaping our world.
Artists use spectacle, material invention and public address to explore some of the defining questions of contemporary life: how histories inhabit place, how images circulate, how materials carry memory, and how audiences gather, move, participate and reflect. Installations is curated by José Da Silva, Director of UNSW Galleries.
