Körper
Sculpture
Stoneware and glaze
61 × 20 × 17 cm
Unique work, 2026
Körper, German for body, is a hand-built stoneware sculpture that resembles the humanoid form through limbs, bellies, and spines.
Informed by Zeynep’s ongoing interest in choreography and somatic movement, the piece approaches sculpture as a body in relation: a composition of contrasting, fluid, and vulnerable entities.
Drawing on multiple references, Boyan allows emotion, intuition, and bodily awareness to guide the making process. It translates physical sensation and movement into an abstracted form whose 'anonymous familiarity' invites recognition without fixed identity, positioning sculpture as a site of embodied negotiation.
“Can a sculpture behave like a body—carry weight, resist gravity, hold tension, and preserve the memory of motion?”
References
i. Martha Graham dancing in Frontier, 1935. The Noguchi Museum Archives, 01508. Photo, Barbara Morgan.
ii. Martha Graham, Isamu Noguchi, Imaginary Landscapes, 1979.
iii. Marble statuette of Aphrodite, Roman, 1st–2nd century CE.
v. Constantin Brâncuși, Léda, 1926.
iv. Ohad Naharin, Last Work, 2015.
vi. Sharon Eyal, Two Chapters of Love, 2023.
vii. Torso, Auguste Rodin, ca. 1877–78, cast 1979.
ix. Sharon Eyal, Delay The Sadness, 2025.
viii. Sharon Eyal, Delay The Sadness, 2025.
xi. Marble statue of a young satyr, 1st or 2nd century CE.
x. Martha Graham, Isamu Noguchi, Cave of Heart, 1946.
xiii. Studies of Legs, Hands, and Torso, Anonymous, Italian, 1700–50.
xii. Marble torso of Eros, 1st or 2nd century CE.