Lost for Words (1998)

Carl Plackman’s work explores the lives of everyday things through large, often architectural constructions that encompass photography, drawing and assembled objects, challenging conventional notions of sculpture. His work attempts to examine how people communicate with each other and how objects often get in the way. Plackman’s later work focuses on two particular interests: one involves aspects of human intimacy that have been assimilated from the media and the different power relationships these images can represent. The other is his concern with aspects of human nature, desires or passions, which have been civilised or controlled. In order to explore this, Plackman used images of various animals such as the dog, the ostrich and the giraffe in an attempt to find metaphors for the human condition.

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