Ariel Schneider (Maple, ON)
Genuine Leather, 2022. Leather, wood, upholstery foam. 160 x 100 x 300 cm.
Bio
At 25, Ariel Schneider has already established a unique artistic voice through their exploration of sculptural representation. With a background in architecture and fashion, Ariel brings a multidimensional approach to their work, incorporating larger-than-life scales and unconventional materials. Their art delves into the human experience, capturing its complexities and nuances through innovative sculptural techniques, always with a loving tenderness of the materials in use and reuse. Ariel's pieces invite viewers to engage with the physical and emotional dimensions of humanity, offering a reflective dialogue on personal and collective existence.
Artist Statement
Genuine leather is a life-sized cow soft sculpture made from discarded leather couches. The piece appropriates the false idol symbolism of the cow from the golden calf story sourced from the Old Testament to reinterpret the ‘rectangular cow’ form from 18th century paintings commissioned by aristocrats to exemplify their larger than life cattle