Psichê Complexo Itinerante, 2004

Psichê Complexo Itinerante is made of a series of early 20th century Brazilian bedroom furniture: an armoire, a vanity, a stool, and twin cabinets with mirrors. The individual elements are made to fold and collapse into one central body so they may be occulted within the containing form, or alternately unfolded into an open environment. In its sequence of possibilities, the piece re-enacts the performance of the body to space: a closed recepticle opens to reveal its inner parts, which one by one unfurl into an improvisational boudoir.

Courtney Smith's sculptural practice focuses on furniture, both materially and theoretically, and its relationship with the human body. The resulting creations—which she appropriately defines as "movable" (meuble, mueble, movel in other languages)—reflect the movements and actions of their forms at the same time as they explore their representations of our physical and psychological needs.

She says of her own work: "In the past I have often worked with original pieces of furniture, breaking them down to explore their underlying syntax, then rearticulating them in a variety of ways. The resulting works are manipulated pieces of deconstructed furniture, or 'construction kits' to be endlessly reconfigured, which allow the viewer to construct new meaning through the continuous formulation of the original object."

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