Roger Hiorns

"In Hiorn's exhibition for CentrePasquArt we find a vast grouping of hanging assemblages, made of redundant car engine components - the bulbous polypropylene containers for air conditioning fluid and screen wash, rubber cable ducts and ventilation hoses and bulky, angular water reservoirs. Some of these rudimentary figures produce detergent foam, but most merely hang, silently, and while they immediately suggest human form, it is nevertheless, a degraded kind of anthropomorphism we are faced with, rather than the presentation of emphatic analogues of arms, legs, hands and mouths, as you might find in primitive sculpture, or in the modernist sculpture that once drew inspiration from the vitality of primitive art. Nor are these the heroic, revolutionary Man-Machines of twentieth century futurism. These figures hang like dismembered remains - torsos, entails, spinal cords and sphincters". Roger Hiorns, The Dust of The Modern, J. J. Charlesworth