 use the tectonics of post and lintel architecture to translate body mass into the equivalent of a high-rise tower or cantilevered pontoon, and this is done with the freedom of a child seeing how high his wooden blocks can reach.

As always, the process begins with a moment of lived time: the moulding or scanning of my body, but these new works directly draw from the language of the 

series. These are pieces where beams, running in three axes, touch the body’s boundary and form an axial stack. The ‘propping’ has evolved from trying to achieve the maximum difference of the beam section with the minimum number of elements, to make a stack of beams within the bounding condition of a human body.

 of 2001, where the space displaced by the artist's body is materialized in ‘physical pixellations’ made from steel blocks. By 2004, the blocks started to be arranged according to the logic of architectural construction using stacking, propping and cantilever, allowing a greater dynamic of parts and greater liberty with the body-volumes.

Proppers

 2011, cast iron, 192 × 46 × 32 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State I

, 2011, cast iron, 193 × 42 × 35 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State VII

 2011, cast iron, 192 × 41 × 32 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State IV

State II

, 2011, mild steel blocks, various sizes, 190 × 37 × 33 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Tower

, 2011, cast iron, 167.5 × 44.5 × 44 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Push VI

, 2012, mild steel bar, 46 × 43 × 163 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Contract II

, 2012, mild steel bar, 164 × 48 × 48 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Submit

, 2012, mild steel blocks, 166 × 47 × 46 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Push V

, 2012, mild steel blocks, 118 × 46 × 106 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Stay II

, 2012, mild steel blocks, 144 × 49 × 70 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Subject II

, 2012, mild steel blocks, 77 × 42 × 61 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hold IV

, 2012, mild steel blocks, 172 × 50 × 65 cm. Installation view, White Cube, São Paulo, Brazil. Photograph by Edouard Fraipont.

Prop II

, 2012, mild steel bar, 191 × 42 × 34 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State III

, 2012, mild steel bar, 164 × 48 × 47 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Submit III

, 2012, mild steel bar, 166 × 47 × 46 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Push VII

, 2012, mild steel bar, 163 × 50 × 46 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Contract IV

, 2013, cast iron, 189.5 × 45 × 35.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State X

, 2013, cast iron, dimensions variable. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Building 1-5

, 2015, cast iron, 192 × 43 × 33 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State XIV

2015, cast iron, 192 × 42 × 34 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State XVI

 2015, cast iron, 190 × 42 × 34.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State XVIII

 2017, cast iron, 190 × 42 × 33.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State XXIX

, 2017, cast iron, 191 × 44.4 × 34.9 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

State XXIV

, 2018, cast iron, 191 × 45.5 × 35.1 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

Proppers

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