Hardback
Publisher: Artangel
ISBN: 978
Dimensions: 20cm x 15cm
Pages: 96
Dig, based on a sculptural project in an abandoned, overgrown site by Daniel Silver, features extensive photographs of the figurative sculptures and fragments which populated the site, as if uncovered though some kind of archaeological endeavour. Made in a range of materials including marble and plaster and terracotta, the figures have been worked by hand, modelled and then eroded and deformed. Taking some of the idols in Freud's collection of antiquities as a starting point, Silver's sculptures appear to be both ancient and modern.Tom Morton's essay excavates some of the different layers in Silver's project, archaeological, sculptural and psychological.
