Niederlande
Yvonne Halfens
My work dwells on the uneasy miracle called life.
Mostly in the human figure, mostly in clay, I seek the poetry of imperfection.
The figures I create are human, but not realistic: missing limbs, fractured torsos, gestures on the edge of disappearing.
They aren't people like you or me, but rather echoes of what we could be, or perhaps no longer are.
Their forms aren't rigid or perfect, but incomplete. My work asks the kind of questions the mind can't fully grasp.
What is a human? There is a tension in which a clumsy beauty resides. My sculptures show vulnerability, but also a stubborn strength.
They don't seek to please, they invite us to face our own depths, the invisible lines between us, and the unsettling wonder of being alive.
The figures explore identity beyond realism, suspended between silence ans speech, as a poetry of imperfection.
