FIONA HOFFER
SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Installation view of the solo exhibition Verifying (Verificando) which took place in the cultural arts center Casa Olinka in Puebla, Mexico in 2023.
Installation view of the solo exhibition Verifying (Verificando) which took place in the cultural arts center Casa Olinka in Puebla, Mexico in 2023.
Detail image from the solo exhibition Verifying (Verificando) which took place in the cultural arts center Casa Olinka in Puebla, Mexico in 2023.
Detail image of the solo exhibition Verifying (Verificando) which took place in the cultural arts center Casa Olinka in Puebla, Mexico in 2023.
2023 Image printed at 35’’ x 39’’ Digital image printed on photographic paper, exhibited unframed and hanging from binder clips on cork board Image created by projecting a photo of the artist’s body, degraded over time by the use of a photocopier, back onto the artist with a projector and photographing the result. The black frame is a natural margin where the light from the projector ends. The Verifying photo series draws inspiration from photocopiers and identification documents to explore
2023 Image printed at 35’’ x 40’’ Digital image printed on photographic paper, exhibited unframed and hanging from binder clips on cork board
2023 Image printed at 35’’ x 47’’ Digital image printed on photographic paper, exhibited unframed and hanging from binder clips on cork board
2023 Image printed at 35’’ x 47’’ Digital image printed on photographic paper, exhibited unframed and hanging from binder clips on cork board
2019 ~ 9'x8.5'x15' ~ steel, corrugated tin, concrete, cast iron, braided wire ~ Passage draws imagery from culverts, tunnels, buoys, bell clappers, and organic forms to explore themes of transition, loss, and connection. Hoffer’s work often deals with grief and memory and their artistic process for Passage began with questions. Instead of running away from grief or change, how might it enrich us to sit with loss? How can acknowledging someone or something that is lost allow us to connect with that someone or something and how can this help us forge a new way forward in times of transition? The cast iron droplets that hang from the piece were originally inspired by imagery of bell clappers and the idea of the tongues of bells existing without their bodies. Hoffer imagines these drops as voices or spirits, no longer with body, but still able to heard if the space and time is taken to connect with them. However, as an artist Hoffer believes viewers’ interpretations of art are just as much a part of the piece as their original intentions and is happy for people to view the drops and the overall piece as something different from the ideas that first inspired the sculpture. The patte
2019 ~ 9'x8.5'x15' ~ steel, corrugated tin, concrete, cast iron, braided wire ~
2019 ~ 9'x8.5'x15' ~ steel, corrugated tin, concrete, cast iron, braided wire ~
2018 recycled wood, rusted corrugated metal and tin, plexiglass, fluorescent lights, vinyl, water, hospital gown, button down shirt, nightgown, water, pillow, blanket ~ Memory Boat is an homage to grief as a perpetual, individual journey and memory as something fallible and questionably constructed. The boat is constructed with a wooden frame and encased in metal, concealing a false bottom from which lights illuminate clothing on the inside of the boat, floating in water.
2018 detail ~ recycled wood, rusted corrugated metal and tin, plexiglass, fluorescent lights, vinyl, water, hospital gown, button down shirt, nightgown, water, pillow, blanket
2018 image detail ~ recycled wood, rusted corrugated metal and tin, plexiglass, fluorescent lights, vinyl, water, hospital gown, button down shirt, nightgown, water
2018 detail ~ recycled wood, rusted corrugated metal and tin, pillow, blanket
2018 digital photos of sculptural compositions, photographed on top of a light box. Wood, metal bars, fluorescent lights, transparency paper. Original sculptural compositions include clothing, hose tubing, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, spools of film, grass, saw blade, light bulbs, empty light fixture, dress, nylons, and other found objects
2018 digital photos of sculptural compositions, photographed on top of a light box. Wood, metal bars, fluorescent lights, transparency paper. Original sculptural compositions include clothing, hose tubing, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, spools of film, grass, saw blade, light bulbs, empty light fixture, dress, nylons, and other found objects
2018 digital photos of sculptural compositions, photographed on top of a light box. Wood, metal bars, fluorescent lights, transparency paper. Original sculptural compositions include clothing, hose tubing, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, spools of film, grass, saw blade, light bulbs, empty light fixture, dress, nylons, and other found objects
2018 Detail image from the Reformations series
2018 Detail image from the Reformations series
2017 sculpture and photography, digital images layered on transparency paper, clothing, wooden box, LED lights ... This piece explores themes of memorialization, disconnection from memory, and attempts to reconnect with what is lost. The images lined up in a grid are layered transparencies of sculptural forms that were originally photographed on top of a 6x3' light box that I built.The combination of natural materials, stockings, and clothing combined with household items and tools made obsolete suggests the idea of a presence that is trying to be reassembled after being dehumanized and stripped down to its disheveled, ill fitting parts. The box in the photo is the original light box the photos were taken on, but for this piece I transformed the box so that clothing became trapped inside of the box itself. The images in the grid are layered with additional images printed on transparencies, multiplying and sometimes blurring their forms.
2017 close up
2017 close up
2017 close up
2017 image close up ~ digital images on layered transparencies hose tubing, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, spools of film, grass, saw blade, light bulbs, empty light fixture, dress, nylons, and other found objects
2017 image close up ~ digital images on layered transparencies hose tubing, nylons, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, rope, spools of film, grass, light bulbs, empty light fixture, and other found objects
2017 image close up ~ digital images on layered transparencies hose tubing, nylons, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, rope, spools of film, grass, light bulbs, empty light fixture, saw blade, jacket, and other found objects
2017 image close up ~ digital images on layered transparencies hose tubing, nylons, cotton stuffing, recycled farming tools, rope, spools of film, grass, light bulbs, empty light fixture, and other found objects