Flora Ranis

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Bio

Flora Ranis is a sculptor and storyteller whose work examines the tensions between human bodies and our built environment. Working primarily with industrial materials, Flora reimagines large-scale structures as hand-crafted, fluid forms. A creation story of the modern age, her works reorient quotidian objects as contemporary myth-makers. She graduated from Yale University, where she learned how to weld and discovered her love for sculpture. 

 Artist Statement

The rigid steel of a prison bar, when heated red hot, becomes as soft as clay. Each of my sculptures features a fracture, a cut, or a transformation, proof that our world is unfixed and unfinished. In working with steel and stone, I argue that our species, and the structures and systems we have built, are as fluid as the wetlands from which we are primordially derived. As a sculptor and fabricator, I accentuate the fingerprints and labor at the heart of industrial production, rendering various objects forged, fabricated, and vulnerable to reimagination. 

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