Alumina at Flùr
‘Alumina’ is a collection of sculptural objects and furniture designed and fabricated by Alastair Martin and presented by Flùr. Carved from aluminum, the series explores the tension between industrial fabrication and the expressive quality of the handmade. The work began with an interest in the marks left behind by angle grinders, which are often treated as imperfections to be removed or concealed. Instead, ‘Alumina’ embraces these traces of fabrication, using carving and polishing to reveal and transform the surface of the material.
Through this process, deeply carved textures catch and distort light, shifting between matte, polished, and mirror-like reflections as the viewer moves around each object. The resulting forms occupy a space between furniture and sculpture, where function, material, and gesture become inseparable. What might ordinarily be considered evidence of production becomes the defining visual language of the work.
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