Exhibition Details

'Cabinet is Me' marks the first solo exhibition of Vincent Pocsik's work at Objective Gallery, New York. This exhibition is a pivotal series consisting of 14 functional artworks, presenting Vincent's craft in wood carving techniques and his exploration in the relationship between human body and domestic space.
It is a search for the different meanings of being a body in a domestic space.  The struggles, the happiness, the sexual explorations, and all the memories also lead a person to develop feelings towards the inanimate objects watching them.  This leads to the question, what would it be like to be that object, that cabinet.
Figures grow into cabinets, tables, lamps, etc, and are shrouded with the floral patterning of domestic life in both a figurative and literal way.  “Cabinet is Me” started from a meditation on what it would be like to be a person's domestic object, specifically a cabinet.  This then gave way to making new worlds where everything might just walk away at any moment.  The feet of a table are now real feet whose legs grow into a tabletop. A hand reaches up in the desire to grasp at the fruit, while the rest of the arm turns into a chandelier.  A human figure morphs into a lamp, as if it walked its way into the home it provides light.  Each piece is a representation of the emotions and sensations of everyday domestic life. 
All of these pieces are inspired by the everyday existence of domestic life. Vincent thinks of each piece as a thought experiment of contemplating what is to be a human body in a home. To him, the human body plays a large role in that, what you are hearing and what you are touching. Also, plants and animals for him personally have always also been a part of that. All of these pieces are expressions of that. The second layer to the work then is the aspect that they are all made out of wood. This is a continuation of a ten year thus far exploration of the material of wood. He is constantly trying to push it as a material using a mix of digital and traditional techniques to find new forms and feelings from it. This inevitably becomes taxing on the body, so using figuration is also a representation of the work that has been put into each piece.
"This exhibition started from a meditation on the everyday existence of domestic life. I think of each piece as a thought experiment of contemplating what it is to be a human body in a home. Meanwhile, I am constantly experimenting with wood as my medium, using a mix of digital and traditional techniques to find new forms and feelings from the material itself. This process inevitably becomes taxing on the body, so using figuration is also a representation of the work that has been put into each piece." - Vincent Pocsik