Socialsculpture 2.01

FAISEL SARO, 2022
 

Screenshot from Keloid  The exihibition Black in Groningen in The Groninger Museum .

Social sculpture 2.01

Faisel Saro, 2022

Cast resin

If you leave crabs overnight in a barrel of water, they will not survive. When a crab tries to escape, the others pull it back into the bucket. For Faisel Saro, this so-called "crab mentality" symbolizes the way enslaved people were treated on the plantations. In addition to the pain of physical torture and inhumane precepts, they were systematically played off against each other. The enslaved who adapted to the rules were given more privileges, so there was little cooperation and resistance. For example, relatively few white plantation owners were able to keep and control many enslaved people in captivity. Saro wants to convince the viewer that this behavior is embedded in every human being. “We have to learn from our history. If we don't think constructively, it means our collective ruin.”

Sociaalsculpture 1.12

FAISEL SARO
 

Screenshot from Keloid  The exihibition Black in Groningen in The Groninger Museum .

Social sculpture 1.12
Faisel Saro 2017
Cast resin

This social sculptures can be considered a key work in Faisel Saro's oeuvre.  

It is about the complexity and the threat of uncontrollability of society.

The sculptures consist of patterned soldier figures, which are based on shapes and patterns of processes that Faisel Saro researched in our society. 

Herd behavior and the crab mentality are subjects in this work

With his work he wants to build bridges by making connections between the individual person and the relationship to his society.

A sculpture that can make one realize that each social position is always at the expense of another.

Sociaalsculpture 1.07

FAISEL SARO
 

1.07

Social sculpture 1.07

Faisel Saro 2015

Cast resin

His social sculptures can be considered a key work in Faisel Saro's oeuvre.  

It is about the complexity and the threat of uncontrollability of society.

The sculptures consist of patterned soldier figures, which are based on shapes and patterns of processes that Faisel Saro researched in our society. Herd behavior and the crab mentality are subjects in this work

With his work he wants to build bridges by making connections between the individual person and the relationship to his society.

A sculpture that can make one realize that each social position is always at the expense of another.