Hernan Ardila

Link to Hernan Ardila's website

Debbie pointed me in the direction of Hernan Ardila (and only awesome people are called Hernan - the amazing Hernan) 
Ardila practice ranges from installations and assemblages to drawn, digital and video works. 

The objective; to adhere to the union and disposition of lines, forms, fields of colour and fragments of wood, plastic of metal. The unitary character of the work is evident through the use of computer within it's development. The digitalisation of materials, whether by means of photography or digitally stimulated form, allowing the artist to pre visualize the relations among the elements. 

Ardila's work consists of a deep and sensitive investigation, whilst remaining light, sensible and specific in regard to meaning and feeling. For this reason the search of precision within the relations goes hand in hand with a lack of certainty that not only demands the absence of significance but also a determined disposition of the elements, making legibility difficult. 

Matter and instability - could summarise his art work. What really interests Ardila is the possibility to manipulate a form and alter it in multiple ways. In this sense he is always trying to work from a point where the things still haven't acquired their direction. His work is fulfilled by intervened forms and elements in crisis that are placed in relation to the order of things which maintains them on their limits, unbalanced; on the verge of being put into movement, to stop being, and that which is the same, to become something else. (from http://www.hernan-ardila.com/about.html)

The paragraph above, I think has a lot of links to how I think about my own practice. The material and an instability, static movement and weight, and placing things out of their own order, creating something other then they were.

Link to some more works