Spoon is a true body size tactile sculpture that lies on the floor as if it is calmly asleep in the spoon position. A position most of us actually do every night, curled up and hidden in our beds, hiding away from the world’s despair. I think many people will recognize this escapist tendency: when the world feels hostile and dangerous – nothing gives more comfort than cuddling up in bed with a loved one. This sculpture invites visitors to cuddle up on the floor, and spoon the sculpture. Just looking at it, it expresses a kind of loneliness. This tactile sculpture is part of a – by now- larger collection of huge cushion like tactile sculptures that Aris made these last couple of years. The material, cotton filled with cheryy pits, follows the temperature of the person spooning the sculpture. The sculpture can also be heated on n electrical heater, the filling will The series started at the beginning of Corona, as a reaction to the more distant fysical behaviour and her conviction that in this screen age, in which humans are more and more related to their digital screens and less in contact with their senses and less convinced of the beneficiance of fyscial nearness and true bodily contact.
