Roger Hiorns, Luhring Augustine, New York

Roger Hiorns, Luhring Augustine, New York

London-based artist Roger Hiorns continues his use of copper sulphate to transform mass-produced objects and everyday environments into aesthetic entities. Two of his most recent standing floor sculptures, currently on display at Luhring Augustine, New York, feature discarded engines that have been refashioned by the organic compound – a chemical with an unpredictable reactive potential. By anthropomorphising various objects through anatomical references, Hiorns explores the transposable relationship between man and manufactured product in his sculptures, reducing the human figure into representative signs and totems.

Until 20 February.