07/02/2024
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David’s sculptures blur the boundaries of inside and outside; realism and abstraction; human and animal, appearing to be in a continuous state of transformation.
In ‘The Whaler’ (2023), the artist explores Jungian theory of the collective unconscious, where ancestral memories become archetypes that establish instinctual behaviours. Here, the whale represents the unconscious whilst the readied harpoon attempts to exercise control over it.
The artist has said, ‘A perfect object for me is something that is extremely seductive and extremely repulsive at the same time.’