Amy Rusch
Amy Rusch (b.1990, Cape Town, South Africa) is an interdisciplinary artist working in a range of fields. She
explores an expression of mark-making, using stitched thread into layers of found plastic bags. The layers of
plastic, connected by the motion and soundscape produced by the machine, communicate aural and
material aspects of our modern culture. The threads are an attempt to link and comprehend millions of
years of layered stratigraphic time.
Her current body of work is informed by ocean crossings, archaeological excavations and microscopic studies of the living world. The works can be seen as tracings, translations or mappings of sensory lived -body experiences, becoming multi-sensory coalescences of sound, vibration, line and colour. ”Cutting, stitching, heating, pulling, binding, gathering, layering – these practices demand their own rhythm by turns slow and meticulous then quick, fast interventions. The motions enacted in making
provides a retrospective link to the embodied experiences, transmuted in the process. The machine stitching into plastic bags is not about replicating an experience, an object, or anything formally understood.
The process is about sitting with the materials - man-made , human time in contrast to the elemental and deep
time.”
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