WINGS, sculpture series, 2011–2014

A craft-intensive series produced approximately 600 chicken-wing forms in bronze, aluminum, ceramic, cement, and paper between 2011 and 2014.

Chicken wings come from the one of the most abused animals on the planet. We know their anatomy well. Bronze adds weight to this guilty pleasure, as well as some material value to one of the market’s cheapest meats. The choice of a risen chicken wing as an iconic object, as well as its obsessive repetition, came from a research on violence in the works of Georges Bataille and Slavoj Zizek. When violence is assimilated to one’s daily routine it becomes systematic and invisible.

An original chicken wing origami design. Installation at the Kresge Art Center in Michigan, USA.