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100 x 160 x 65 cm
Hand carved Portuguese marble and pine
2025
Irena Posner works with sculpture and performance, using material as a conceptual structure through which desire is organised via allegorical figures of animals, hybrids, and bodily fragments. Rooted in ancient carving traditions and Hellenistic motifs, her work explores how these forms mediate questions of control, vulnerability, transformation, and longing. Animals, hybrid beings, and fragmented bodies recur as unstable figures occupying thresholds between human and nonhuman, intimacy and estrangement. Working primarily in stone, Posner uses labour-intensive carving to create a material dissonance between hardness and apparent softness. Through these tensions, her sculptures examine embodiment, desire, memory, ritual, and the shifting boundaries.
Please note that delivery is not included in the price. Delivery costs will be the responsibility of the buyer. The delivery method and payment will be arranged with Parker Harris after purchase, and Parker Harris will contact all buyers once their purchase is complete. Buyers will not receive the work until after the exhibition at Wells Cathedral closes on Saturday 7 November 2026. Works can be collected from Wells Cathedral on Sunday 8 or Monday 9 November 2026, 9.30am–4.30pm.
100 x 160 x 65 cm
Hand carved Portuguese marble and pine
2025
Irena Posner works with sculpture and performance, using material as a conceptual structure through which desire is organised via allegorical figures of animals, hybrids, and bodily fragments. Rooted in ancient carving traditions and Hellenistic motifs, her work explores how these forms mediate questions of control, vulnerability, transformation, and longing. Animals, hybrid beings, and fragmented bodies recur as unstable figures occupying thresholds between human and nonhuman, intimacy and estrangement. Working primarily in stone, Posner uses labour-intensive carving to create a material dissonance between hardness and apparent softness. Through these tensions, her sculptures examine embodiment, desire, memory, ritual, and the shifting boundaries.
Please note that delivery is not included in the price. Delivery costs will be the responsibility of the buyer. The delivery method and payment will be arranged with Parker Harris after purchase, and Parker Harris will contact all buyers once their purchase is complete. Buyers will not receive the work until after the exhibition at Wells Cathedral closes on Saturday 7 November 2026. Works can be collected from Wells Cathedral on Sunday 8 or Monday 9 November 2026, 9.30am–4.30pm.