A MEME is a cultural analogue to a gene: forms that are transmitted in thought or behaviour from one body to another, responding to conditional environments, self-replicating and capable of mutation. Using the miniature or model to allow the totality of a body to be seen at once, the MEMES replace anatomy with the formal language of architecture and construct volumes that articulate a range of 33 body postures. These small solid iron works use a geometric formal language of 27 blocks to articulate a range of 33 body postures. The ambition is to make intelligible forms that form an abstract lexicon of body-posture but which nevertheless carry the invitation of empathy and the transmission of states of mind.
2011 cast iron 36.8 x 9.1 x 6.3 cm (14 1/2 x 3 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.) Impressed with the artist's initials, number and date 'AMDG 1199 2011' on the underside of the feet.
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠
Sold for £92,500
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