In her Fine Art practice Flurina Sokoll creates sculptural arrangements, installations and texts that arise from the concept of composition in dialogue with bulky waste that has been deposited on the roadside. She aims to create spaces, images and stories in which the power of objects unfolds, so that the human and the non-human touch one another in resonance, and in this touch a space for contemplation unfolds. In a broad sense, she sees herself as a still-life artist.
In her recent studio practice, she arranges and composes in relation to discarded (waste-)objects, mostly everyday household items, which she salvages from piles of trash on the side of the road and carry with her. She does feel overwhelmed by socio-ecological issues of mass consumption and pollution and thematises this by addressing exhaustion, exploitation, injury, responseAbility, appreciation, care and vulnerability. However, in relationship with the things themselves, the dialogue often takes other directions than to address a theme forefront.
Arranging with the objects means exchanging and balancing between the objects characteristics, and between her body, thoughts, needs and visions, as well as between interactions with the space and the situation in which they take a position. The dialogue leaves an impression while simultaneously evokes words and associations, linking to historical research and insights, texts of all sorts, to images, a colour, a shape, a thing, a person, a gesture, a rhythm, a material, a world. The collaborative process forms a tapestry, a texture, like a field full of flowers, which is roamed over and from which specific blooms are plucked until the field is left behind and the bouquet, as a composition, is deliberately positioned for contemplation in a space isolated from the field.
