Royal College of Art (group residency) / Korissa Frooman
photo Simon Beckmann
Royal College of Art (group residency) / Korissa Frooman / sculpture
Korissa Frooman is em[bed]ded in holes, altars, and crevices. Recessed, porous sites throb between womb and tomb to occupy the jagged intersections of traumatic surrealism and the feminist grotesque. Her work conjures motorized reliquaries and amniotic remains. Through subtle displacement, she renders the familiar predatory.
Leaking between sculpture, photography, and sound, Frooman's work registers the body as a site of desire and fear, where ideology is inscribed, extracted, and policed. She embeds subtle mechanics into sacramental junk to suggest an unsettling, sentient agency to mirror the uneasy hierarchies of power, religion, and gender.
Ephemeral performative rituals are enacted, made eternal through a medium-format photographic practice. The alchemization of the film collapses documentation and process, object and act, residue and belief. These silver-gelatin phantoms and decaying armatures inhale time, burying and excavating simultaneously.
Frooman is archeological and archival, haunted by shrouds, wax, and leaden spirits that refuse sterility. Unfolding within corridors, tunnels, and canals; inviting peeping, penetration, and voyeurism. She seduces and repels, weaving umbilical connection between [m]otherhood, reproduction, and ritual. Uncanny relics are not preserved but tasted, skinned, tucked in.
Holy anorexia meets voluptuous excess; impotent gestures collapse into erotic seepage.
K O R I S S A F R O O M A N
a r t i s t + d e s i g n e r
In partnership with the Royal College of Art, this group residency at Joya: AiR was curated by guest artist Annie Edwards (GBA 26, MA RCA, BFA) www.annieedwards.com
