"If you're considering bathroom renovations, I would perhaps advise against hiring Lisa Herfeldt to do the work. Yes, it's true, she's something of a whiz with a silicone gun creating compelling sculptures from this unlikely art material. But the more you look at her creations the more you realise that something is a little off. The thick lengths of sealant she produces stretch beyond the shelves on which they sit, sagging off the edges towards the floor. The knotty foam pipes bulge until they split."
"Indeed there's something rather body horror about Herfeldt's work, from the phallic bulge that protrudes, hernia-like, from its cylindrical stand in the centre of the gallery, to the intestinal coils of foam that rupture like medical emergencies. On one wall Herfeldt has framed photocopies of the works viewed from different angles: they look like wormy parasites picked up on a microscope, or growths on a petri-dish."
Lisa Herfeldt constructs sculptures from silicone sealant and knotty foam, creating forms that sag, bulge and split. The works evoke bodily textures and body-horror through phallic bulges, hernia-like protrusions and intestinal coils that rupture. Photocopied views present the pieces as wormy parasites or petri-dish growths. A Margate solo exhibition at Roland Ross gallery presents these installations alongside a poster image of a leaky studio ceiling in Kreuzberg, Berlin, marked by a brown uneven stain. The Berlin building dates from the early 1970s and was already in disrepair. Herfeldt was born in Munich and grew up north of Hamburg before moving to Berlin.
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