Rama y metal [Branch and Metal] (2024)
Sculpture. Bramble branch and stainless steel
157 x 0.5 x 33 cm
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2024.597.1
Fiedler finds a great source of metaphors for her work in the inscrutable character of nature and in the way it is depicted. Wandering, observing, gathering and analysing are part of a work process where body and context merge. The artist appropriates and integrates in her work natural elements that she manipulates and channels through painting, video, photography and installations. Fiedler gathers them attracted by the strange and specific nature they take on when they are deprived of their origin, of a larger body to which they no longer belong. Those elements isolated from their origin evoke a living dimension for the artist, a seductive and magnetic presence that makes her collect them with care, wrapping them gently and carrying their weight and fragility towards the workshop.
By means of the ongoing exercise of finding them a new place, by bringing those elements together, hybrid figures are created that evoke human figures, animals, plants and other organisms. The borders are blurred, leading to new intersections that emerge from the semantic, anthropomorphic and physical attributes of the elements, alluding to the interdependence existing between organisms and ecosystems.
Anatomía [Anatomy] and Rama y metal [Branch and Metal] are two works that exemplify this work process. In the first, an arm is inserted through a plant body. The interaction generates a profound change to the original structure and form of both elements, resulting in a new body where the human and the plant are blurred. In the second, a branch is inserted in stainless steel rods, thus integrating in such a way that it seems a single body. The branch’s sinuosity evokes a living element (animal or a river), a sensation that is intensified by the contrast with the rigidity of the metal.