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Entanglement is perhaps Laviada’s most personal work to date, showing herself in the process, and creating a video and a series of sculptures that she considers self-portraits. In the video, the artist is seen ‘wrestling’ with a life-size foam mattress, trying to tame and give form to this supple, everyday object using only her body and a rope. At times she succeeds, others she fails, until eventually creating a foam sculpture made from bending, folding, tying and sculpting the material with her body weight and a rope.

The sculptures are a direct reference to John Chamberlain’s Foam …