Hooman Pourmehr

Sculpture

Six sculptures in bronze and other metals, where the instinct to build, first practiced on bread dough, finally found a material that lasts.

Genealogy of Fingerprints
Aluminum, bronze and brass. A New Year's gift for five households of one family: each blade carries one member's fingerprint, ordered like a family tree from parents onward.
Battleground
Cast bronze torso pressed with the soles of soldiers' boots
Pa(in)ring
A ring made to hurt whoever wears it
Grounded
A seated figure on a platform held up by a cage of bronze bars
Suck It
Forty small bronze earths on sticks, one jar, buy one get one free
Trash Earth
The world map turned inside out in cast bronze