In Raw upon Raw, artists Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski come together to explore the tension between transience and permanence. Their sculptural works evoke a deconstructed landscape frozen in time; a setting of fragmented bodies and concrete elements. Within these ‘ruins’ cruelty and tenderness coexist; from this duality emerge the sculptures delicately balanced between destruction and care.

Gatzkan’s work merges found artifacts with casts of body parts to create ethereal, translucent figures that appear almost ghostly. Goscinski’s concrete objects partly resemble fragments – broken, scratched, painted and seemingly randomly salvaged from rubble.

Together, the artists explore the intersection between the two ‘raw materials’, the human body and stone. The fragility of the living body stands in stark contrast to the cold solidification of the stone. The dichotomy comes into focus – the vulnerability of the body against the permanence of the architecture. Raw upon Raw thus ultimately examines the inhumanity of the human condition, the suffering that comes with it, but also the resilience that can arise from it.