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AJ Fosik:
SCULPTURES, BEASTS AND ANIMISM

AJ Fosik creates sculptures of wood and found materials with an irresistible uncanny aura. In a process of arranging hundreds of individually cut, varnished, and painted pieces, he handcrafts artificial creatures, reduced and abstract animals with an anthropomorphic appearance. Familiar cultural icons and traditions are re-configured, confronting the viewer with cryptic symbols from overlapping sources. In his lecture at the Pictoplasma Conference 2009, he talks about the familiar and the uncanny, nature and culture, and the relationship of art and viewer…

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7 minute edit of AJ Fosik’s lecture at the Pictoplasma Conference 2009

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