In her artistic practice, Flurina Sokoll developes sculptural arrangements, installations, and texts that emerge from the concept of composition in dialogue with bulky discarded objects she finds on the roadside and randomly collects on her daily walks. Her aim is to invent spaces, images, and stories in which the power of discarded objects is revealed. In the broadest sense, she considers herself a still-life artist.
In her engagement with discarded objects, she feels overwhelmed by socio-ecological problems of mass consumption and environmental pollution. In her dialogue with these discarded items, she addresses themes such as exhaustion, exploitation, injury, responsibility, appreciation, care, and vulnerability. However, the more time she spends with the collected objects, the more the dialogue leads in unexpected directions, rather than focusing entirely on these themes.
To her, engaging in a sculptural dialogue with objects means, balancing their properties as much as her bodies interactions and visions, as well as the space and situation in which they find themeselves in relationship. The dialogue leaves an impression and simultaneously evokes associations with historical, theoretical and philosophical insights, images, colors, a particular form or re-design, another object, a person, a gesture, a rhythm or a specific materiality. This collaborative process forms a carpet, a texture, like a field full of flowers that is traversed and from which blossoms are picked, until the field is left behind and the bouquet is consciously placed as a composition for contemplation in a space isolated from the field.
