Mk-015 Siamese, Mk-016 Conjoined, Mk-017 Undone, Mk-018 Half Undone, Mk-019 Binary

Matthew Angelo Harrison prints clay sculptures using a 3-D printer constructed by the artist through the modification and hybridization of existing technologies. For his Kunsthalle Basel edition, Harrison has made five unique 3-D printed ceramic heads, each based on a single ancient Makonde mask that the artist scanned beforehand. But, as with most of his 3-D prints, each sculpture is made through the deliberate programming of glitches and errors to create an intentionally low-resolution machinic output. Thus every “replica” is, in fact, new and different. The heads, generated in coiled ribbons of clay, appear flattened, doubled, or left partially undone, like freakish versions of the original and rejecting the slick perfection common to 3-D printing.

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