I was searching here for the principles that allow objects to sustain. To endure. –GP
Three Bronze Forms seems to offer a game of some sort: three machined bronze pieces sit on the surface of a felt-top table, ready to be handled. Putting them together yields a satisfying click, almost a kind of suction, that only a perfect fit will deliver. However they don’t come together to form a larger whole shape, nor do they imply any other rules of engagement. If this is a puzzle, it remains permanently unsolvable. Three Bronze Forms was made for an exhibition on the theme of sustainability. Other artists took this as a cue to “reduce, reuse, recycle,” and they produced environmentally conscious designs such as sofas from bubble wrap and chairs from rolled newspaper. By contrast, Peteran addressed the assigned topic by making a work that specifically was about sustained engagement, rather than an example of environmental sustainability. If the riddle is, “what allows us to sustain our relation to our environment?” then furniture itself is Peteran’s answer.
