Bader Baroudy
@theartofbaderMy method of making adheres to a subconscious flow of thought and feeling deeply rooted in a musical soundscape. As it cycles through my mind, it takes on diverse forms inspired by a variety of musical artists’ lyrical world-buildings and sound palettes, dressed in a plethora of symbolic references emerging from mythological, theological, and biological sources.
My work is an imprint of my soul, a macroscopic display of sensuality always in flux, and an exploration into my convoluted experience with gender through a visually rich lens. My media is sculptures translated into recorded movement in space over time, referred as “sculptural film”. I envision short form musical videos inspired and organized according to a chronology of transcendental instances in my life, acting both as self-sufficient sculptures within a grandeur filmographic narrative, engaging audiences beyond the film’s macrocosm of psychophysiological symbolism and settings. In this middle space between object and interactive universe, the sculptures implore various modes of communication inside and outside of the context of film. By merging the sculptures, physical setting, actors, and pre-recorded and digitally projected footage, the sets contain their own set of associative rules and regulations separate from that of “the outside world”: a self-enclosed aesthetic system.
My greatest desire is to capture the primarily intangible and temporally capricious complexities of gendered and traumatized human bodylines. I feel as though merely materializing this deeply spiritual subject renders its emotional flexibilities dull and too concrete. By renouncing previously explored formalities which rely on essential habits of intuition, I hope to build greater flexibility, allowing themes to fluctuate along a spectrum of subjectivity. Always deferring from any definitive conclusion.
RiiiDE!, 2024. Plastic Rocking Horse, Plaster, Acrylic paint, Liquid Glass (Resin), Steel, Brass wire, String
The Room, 2024. Wood, Drywall, Sand, LED Strip, Translucent Fabric