Gusty Ferro

Gusty Ferro is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between architecture and the body, as well as the materiality of mundane objects, urban infrastructure and displacement. Their practice spans sound, sculpture, video, drawing and installation. A brutalist sensitivity to texture and material run through many of the sculptural works  - concrete and stone meet metal, plastic and paper in writhing, contorted loops. These contorted loops are not only found within the forms of Gusty’s sculptural works, but also in their post-industrial techno soundscapes to be experienced alongside. There is a dark, sombre thread that runs through every aspect of their practice, the sculptures often appear as aggressive and unwelcoming, the sound is often harsh and sinister, yet the construction of interesting spaces through installation work has an inherent element of play to it, offsetting the dark with light. 

“Ambient post-industrial sound layers the space shared by one of Ferro’s bold, brutal-and-delicate, twisting sculptures. A ruined form, perhaps, reanimated by a dynamic, rhizomic, organic vitality, has become fluid, caught here in a process of strange metamorphosis. Its steel skeleton supports a body made from straw and concrete, embedded with coins and cobblestones and sprouting cable-ties. A thing existing outside anthropocentric frames of reference.”