Jonathan Baldock’s Performative Art Probes The Human Body

The London-based artist uses ceramics, fabrics, weaving and sculptural assemblage to create surreal works of the human body in various different forms. Baldock’s artist biography explains that he aims to address the “Trauma, stress, sensuality, mortality, and spirituality around our relationship to the body and the space it inhabits”. He uses fabric specifically as a metaphor for human skin, bringing forth a component that is both unsettling and humorous. Baldock’s work has a performative element to it, that brings the viewer, object and space together into question as a ritual act.