SAM METZ
Sam Metz is an artist who explores the concept of ‘neuroqueering’ ecology. This term refers to the act of challenging societal norms that are hostile towards non-normative neurodivergent individuals. Their practice investigates and responds to the premise of subverting dominant structures that remain confrontational to neurodivergent bodies and minds. Their work explores relational ecology considering chronic pain, disability and visual impairment, focussing on how stimming might support interpretation of landscape.
website: sammetz.com
instagram: @chippedpale
CILIATED SENSE, 2024
Ciliated sense describes the way the artist’s body vibrates and shimmers – a porous body in conversation with the multiple processes of their situated landscape. The work has an invitation to touch.
[Image description: a sculptural object formed from a series of long lengths of silver coloured wires emerging vertically from a slightly curved, yellow 3D printed base. The wires appear to be swaying slightly.]
POROUS, 2023
A yellow soya wax cast mallet. The softness of the mallet has a warmth redolent of flesh. Sam has previously smashed wax mallets in the landscape, considering how the body interacts with situated ecology.
[Image description: a yellow wax mallet is laid across the top of nine browny grey rectangle mud tiles, on a grey floor. The tiles are neatly stacked together in three layers of three.]