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Banks Violette — bonded salt, salt, polyurethane, polymer medium, ash, epoxy, wood, galvanized steel, steel hardware
Banks Violette

bonded salt, salt, polyurethane, polymer medium, ash, epoxy, wood, galvanized steel, steel hardware

Banks Violette transforms raw industrial materials—salt, ash, steel, and epoxy—into austere sculptural environments that blur the boundary between physical substance and psychological residue. His work evokes the haunted aftermath of violent or traumatic events, imbuing everyday materials with a dark, almost ceremonial weight. The result is an unsettling stillness, as though the objects themselves have absorbed and retained the energy of some unnamed catastrophe.

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“I think the condition of something can be shifted by its proximity to a crime or an event and then it does become haunted and inhabited by something.” -BANKS VIOLETTE

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Under the Influence

April 13, 2015

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Banks Violette, bonded salt, salt, polyurethane, polymer medium, ash, epoxy, wood, galvanized steel, steel hardware

Banks Violette transforms raw industrial materials—salt, ash, steel, and epoxy—into austere sculptural environments that blur the boundary between physical substance and psychological residue. His work evokes the haunted aftermath of violent or traumatic events, imbuing everyday materials with a dark, almost ceremonial weight. The result is an unsettling stillness, as though the objects themselves have absorbed and retained the energy of some unnamed catastrophe.

Medium
“I think the condition of something can be shifted by its proximity to a crime or an event and then it does become haunted and inhabited by something.” -BANKS VIOLETTE
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark Aesthetic, Dark Palette, Male Artist, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Industrial Materials, Contemporary Artist, Haunting Atmosphere, Post-Minimalism, American Artist, Sculptural Installation, Early 2000s Art, Early 2000s, Monochromatic Palette

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