A quiet strength emanates from this elegant perpendicular structure that recalls diminutive organ pipes. It draws you in to spend time with its delicately etched detail and fragile intricacies, and on closer examination the sensitive sandblasted steel surface reveals Japanese characters and English text, together with a silver foliage design that flips into gold as it catches the changing light and shadow. As the viewer walks around, the sculpture reveals further treasures in the form of handcrafted tiny objects that hang and swivel.

Informed by her cross-cultural heritage - British born, half Japanese and half Spanish - Gonzalez Noguchi removes, relocates and reconstructs objects in different geographic territories. She renegotiates memory and investigates our capacity to anchor experiences in tangible forms. This is reflected throughout her practice in a range of sculptural formats - innocuous possessions and handmade objects located on steel structures, wood-turned imitation crockery stacks and intricate ceramic tile reliefs. An intense attention to detail, combined with industrial finish and traditional craft, visually punctuate the work, where the clinical mass-produced aesthetic (containing memories of use) offsets the handcrafted elements to allow them to gain focus and embed memories. Gonzalez Noguchi’s interest in possessions has implications for everyone in terms of how we live, work and express ourselves.

The work is constructed out of anodized aluminium and sandblasted steel with wood turned charm-like objects hanging from metal chains.

Anna Gonzalez Noguchi (b.1992) completed BA in Sculpture and University of Brighton (2011-2014) and MA in Sculpture at Royal College of Art (2016-2018). She was a recipient of the Gilbert & Bayes Trust and Eaton Art Fund. Recent exhibitions include Portable Elastic Temple, Pet Projects, Athens GR (2022); An hearing of an absence, Haus N, Athens GR (2022); Art Athina with South Parade, Athens GR (2022); On the Other Hand, Canary Wharf Estate, London UK (2021); 5th Edition of Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire UK (2021); Squeezebox, Collective Ending HQ, London UK (2021); Apotropaion, Felios Collection, Athens GR (2021); Against the Linear, KEIV, Athens GR (2021); Under the Volcano at Studio Block M74, Mexico City (2020); NEW FOUND LAND at Caustic Coastal Salford, UK (2019); To The Core at White Crypt, London (2018); Nomadic Vitrine at Recent Activity, Birmingham (2018); SPVI#2 at Turner Gallery, Tokyo (2015). Gonzalez Noguchi has participated in AIR Yamanashi Residency, Japan and NAIR Residency, Nagano, Japan. Real Feel 90 was acquired in 2021 by Canary Wharf Estate London and 省略の美 (Shoryaku nobi) : Beauty of Elimination (2019) is now part of the permanent collection at London School of Economics.