Hilde Onis’s (1994) work is expressed in amalgams of sculpture, installation, video work and textual interventions.
The work plays with the characters of trivial objects, questioning our daily reality subsequently materialized in physical forms and solid metaphors. By making objects that seem to be wanting to talk to you, referring to language systems and transforming object and material hierarchies, the work tries to expose underlying structures of human assumptions and constructed semiotic agreements. Much of the work centers on the idea of contingency, the idea that things only act when they are needed, holding some kind of dormant potential energy until requested.
Recognizable objects and physical metaphors play a refined game for attention.The dense installation compulses each work to be each others neighbor and creates room for an everlasting dialogue, balancing on meanings, like thoughts that have no end or beginning.
Will hallways be there - glass doorstopper permanently sweating on the inside - glass doorstopper filled with protective foam peanuts - glass doorstopper impounding one year of dust from upper door ledge - glass doorstopper trapping a poem about having sex while grieving - glass doorstopper enclosing one human sip of water - glass doorstopper in the shape of a coffin - glass doorstopper waiting to be trapped in a crack - glass doorstopper holding thrust in pinched feet - glass doorstopper dreaming of crooks and nooks and pools of light - glass doorstopper holding an event that meant nothing to anyone - glass doorstopper silently eroding a monumental passage - glass doorstopper insisting on outstepping the boundary lines of property - glass doorstopper seizing the warm and hopeful space of pockets - glass doorstopper with edges so sharp they cut through your longing to enter - glass doorstopper wishing to dribble transparency all over - glass doorstopper completing a test of endurance - glass doorstopper made of cathedral glass thinking oh god - glass doorstopper on a ridge telling you: I will hallways be here to stop
Edition of 23 stained glass doorstoppers (2023)
Various sizes
Stained glass, copper, tin, found materials.
Orchestrating Coincidence - Orchestrating Coincidence is a project by Hilde Onis and Liza Wolters,
an edition of 30 unique sculptures existing of 26 individuals,
2 pairs and 5 artist proofs.
With Orchestrating Coincidence, Hilde Onis and Liza Wolters take on the representation of the
in-between,resulting in a series of 30 sculptures that defy odds by finding connection
at their breaking point. By developing a method that aims to constrain but meanwhile evokes accident,
the series’ individual objects have a say in controlling it’s own contours.
Departing from these notions, they explore existing linear views of (gendered) positive
and negative space in sculpture. The thirty unique sculptures are paired with an emphasizing
publication that plays with character assignment. The printed leporello catalog integrally touches upon
what it means to collect and be one of a whole.
Next to the catalog, the series connects to an essay written synchronously to their production.
Constructed through and around various artists and thinkers who take erosion, fragility, interspace
and the ‘failure’ of objects in their original function as their point of departure, the text explores content emerging from parenthesis and absent material.
To purchase the edition visit: www.orchestratingcoincidence.com (9, 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 29 & 30 sold)
Every sculpture comes with corresponding packaging and a
printed leporello catalog designed by graphic designer Janne Beldman.
Separate catalog: €26 + shipping
Installation overview - 2020
Concrete, steel, ceramics, styrofoam, acrylic one, lacquer paint, beeswax, wood, leather, found objects, plasticine clay.
Various
As shown during the graduation show of the MA Fine arts department at KASK, Gent, Belgium
Hawk Eye - 2020
Birdseed, fat, sunflower seeds, kurkuma, forest berries, clay, steel, concrete
250 x 52 x 12 cm
A hawk’s eye symbolizes sharp-sightedness, alertness, an inescapable glance. The intense-colored sculpture, stands out guarding the landscape, acting as a talisman protecting the forest, while at the same time facilitating the adoption of a revised paradigm to the species and their socially conditioned nature. The sculpture researches the opportunity to challenge the fear instigated by a certain visual representation, inviting other bird species to literally peck at the eye of the hawk. The eye is continuously seen by another eye, a wildlife camera that films when it detects any warm-blooded being.
Spherical octahedron with handles as legs (or: stopping / trying / understanding // To try to understand / To stop to understand / To stop trying /// To have to stop trying to understand and to move it, all of it, to your legs. Let them carry the weight.) - 2021 Ceramics (stoneware clay) 24 x 42 x 42 cm
Installation overview - 2020
Concrete, steel, ceramics, styrofoam, acrylic one, lacquer paint, beeswax, wood, leather, found objects, plasticine clay.
Various
As shown during the graduation show of the MA Fine arts department at KASK, Gent, Belgium
The neighbors fence is not made of biscuits either (2020) - Site specific work made for the space of Marres Maastricht and the exhibition 'And me, Streams of You'
Aluminium, PLA, Stucco, paint, bolts and joints
235 x 220 x 100 cm
Tastebud Potential (detail) 2019 - PLA, paper clay, epoxy clay, ginger powder, concrete, found object
70 x 45 x 17 cm
LoO0ⓞｏ𝑜օₒp & Venn Diagram Pot in installatie detail (2020) - Zoals getoond in KIOSK, Gent
