Rubber Soul

 

Interview with Formento & Formento

 

Your latest project “Rubber Soul” started during the pandemic and is still work in progress. What is the background of this?

We look to art for clarity, and now more than ever, for refuge. Since the pandemic we isolate at home. As our environment becomes more personal and less public, we are looking to recalibrate our priorities and find ways to keep busy, to explore work that anchors us and keeps us sane during these tricky times. After the early chaos, we have been very productive and cathartic because of our creativity. What you see here results from building sets in our studio and photographing silicone love dolls instead working with real models for obvious reasons due to the situation at the earlier stage of the pandemic. A creative detour and bypass.

What is the message or idea you elaborate upon in this project?

It is about how desire affects our behavior? Can we find intimacy in inanimate objects? Besides companionship, our ideas delve into relationship, mental health, intimacy, art form and post human kinship. We explore our dolls from many perspectives, including philosophical and ethical. As you said, it is still in progress with an open end. What you see here are a set of different episodes to from a bigger picture at some point.



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