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Samara Golden — Missing Pieces from a Fall of Corners #4
Samara Golden

Missing Pieces from a Fall of Corners #4

2015

Missing Pieces from a Fall of Corners #4 presents a fragmented domestic interior suspended in a state of perpetual collapse and reconstruction. Rendered in foam, plastic, glue, and paint, the work belongs to a pivotal body of sculpture Samara Golden developed in the mid-2010s, in which she dismantles the conventions of architectural space and reassembles them as something uncanny and destabilized. Shelving units, wall sections, and floor planes are extracted from their logical positions and reconfigured into a dense, hovering mass that measures over two and a half meters on each side, commanding a room with the authority of an environmental installation while remaining, technically, a single sculptural object. Golden's practice draws on the psychology of domestic space, treating the home not as a place of comfort but as a site where anxiety, memory, and desire accumulate over time. The deliberately provisional materials, foam carved and painted to mimic the textures of everyday interiors, create a surface tension between the mundane and the hallucinatory. Corners, the architectural elements named in the title, are points of structural necessity and psychological pressure in equal measure, and their fragmentation here reads as both formal experiment and emotional metaphor. The work rewards close attention to its construction, where the logic of weight and support has been quietly abandoned in favor of something that operates more like a frozen moment of dissolution. Acquired from CANADA gallery, the work is signed and represents Golden at a formative moment before her large-scale mirrored installations brought her widespread institutional recognition. For collectors interested in sculpture that engages seriously with architecture, interiority, and the phenomenology of everyday objects, this piece offers an exceptional point of entry into one of the more intellectually rigorous practices in contemporary American art.

Medium
Foam, plastic, glue, paint
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
CANADA, New York, NY

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Samara Golden, Missing Pieces from a Fall of Corners #4, 2015

Missing Pieces from a Fall of Corners #4 presents a fragmented domestic interior suspended in a state of perpetual collapse and reconstruction. Rendered in foam, plastic, glue, and paint, the work belongs to a pivotal body of sculpture Samara Golden developed in the mid-2010s, in which she dismantles the conventions of architectural space and reassembles them as something uncanny and destabilized. Shelving units, wall sections, and floor planes are extracted from their logical positions and reconfigured into a dense, hovering mass that measures over two and a half meters on each side, commanding a room with the authority of an environmental installation while remaining, technically, a single sculptural object. Golden's practice draws on the psychology of domestic space, treating the home not as a place of comfort but as a site where anxiety, memory, and desire accumulate over time. The deliberately provisional materials, foam carved and painted to mimic the textures of everyday interiors, create a surface tension between the mundane and the hallucinatory. Corners, the architectural elements named in the title, are points of structural necessity and psychological pressure in equal measure, and their fragmentation here reads as both formal experiment and emotional metaphor. The work rewards close attention to its construction, where the logic of weight and support has been quietly abandoned in favor of something that operates more like a frozen moment of dissolution. Acquired from CANADA gallery, the work is signed and represents Golden at a formative moment before her large-scale mirrored installations brought her widespread institutional recognition. For collectors interested in sculpture that engages seriously with architecture, interiority, and the phenomenology of everyday objects, this piece offers an exceptional point of entry into one of the more intellectually rigorous practices in contemporary American art.

Medium
Foam, plastic, glue, paint
Dimensions
overall: 241.3 x 241.3 x 114.3 cm
Year
2015
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
CANADA, New York, NY

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