Lang's practice investigates possibilities for sewn sculpture to explore and complicate the relationships between concepts of the decorative and the grotesque. Her work is materially driven and usually involves an obsessive compulsive process of making hundreds of individually stuffed fabric forms and then sewing them together in an intuitive manner that allows the work to grow organically. The resulting sculpture is a hybrid object/organism whose final form references both foreign and familiar bodily elements to create tension between the familiar and the unknown and explore notions of the abject. It is this tension between form and formlessness, and allure and repulsion that is central to Lang's practice.
CAST Small Space
The exhibition of Decoy 2 in this space results from my personal interest in Lang’s practice. Our work has been exhibited together in group shows throughout the last several years, and shares an intense preoccupation with bodily material and the abject. Lang’s conjuring of an alien otherness within the body, translates fluidly into slick tangible organ-like form, and resonates strongly with bodily metamorphosis.
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