Sarah Hopper is one of our 2024/25 recipients of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust MA Materials and Research Award.
Fragility and impermanence are prerequisites of being human. Through modular works that can be deconstructed and reconstructed in different arrangements I’m developing pieces that have a scientific language of accuracy but there’s no plan or reliable way to remember the form once it’s dismantled. They look concrete but are fragile, relying on the ‘rules’ of physics without an understanding of the science – there’s a playful circularity between how it appears and what it is. Chance and ‘hazard’ play a part in the work – it’s temporary and vulnerable. Audio from field or voice recordings is integrated within the work, the ephemeral coexisting with the physical. The objects or site sympathetic works are flexible and can be re-imagined or repositioned to facilitate a continually evolving conversation with both the geographical and psychological spaces they occupy.
Website: www.sarah-hopper.com
