In Kira Freije’s sculptures, forms oscillate between the figurative and seemingly functional. Inhabiting a quasi-religious quality, figures express humility, capturing an idea of mankind in reverence to nature or the preternatural, while other objects either appear as tools or as symbols of nature itself. Lamps emanate an atmospheric and crepuscular glow, alluding to the shadowy world of streetlights or perhaps the private inner world of one’s domestic realm.
Freije’s sculptural assemblages are like fragments of poetry in physical form, evoking familiar yet uneasy feelings that sway between joy and fear. Her work succinctly evokes the contradiction that has plagued humanity since its inception: that even under the constant and imminent threat of annihilation and apocalypse, we seek love and companionship above all.
Kira Freije (b. 1985, London) lives and works in London.