NADA Miami 2021

Woman with Her Torso Cut, 2019, the lone representative of the human figure, is a direct burnout bronze casting of the corset Pels was wearing when she was accidentally run over by a pickup truck in 2017. Although the piece was made before the pandemic; it distinctively evokes the uncanny power lost wax casting can have when used to conceptualize loss, the passage of time and ecstatic transformation.