Pyschopomps 2021
Figures (variously) - variously burnished, glazed, unglazed stoneware
Bases (variously) - marble agrregate concrete, blackened steel, pentellic marble
1: Psychopomp 04S21
selectively burnished stoneware, marble aggregate concrete with steel inclusion
30.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
2: Psychopomp 01S21
selectively burnished stoneware, marble aggregate concrete with steel inclusion
27.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
3: Psychopomp 02S21
selectively burnished stoneware, marble aggregate concrete
27.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
4: Psychopomp 03S21
glazed stoneware, blackened steel, Pentellic marble
27.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
Across many cultures, psychopomps are the liminal, transcendental, spirit-entities that without judgement meet and guide the souls of the recently deceased to the afterlife.
The term psychopomp - most often encountered in mythological, ritual and religious contexts - derives from the ancient Greek word psychopompós (ψυχοπομπός) a compound of psyche (ψυχή), meaning ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’, and pompos (πομπός), meaning ‘guide’ or ‘conductor’.
Hazewinkel’s ongoing corpus of psychopomps (currently numbering approximately thirty-five) blends conceptions of ebodiment and transcedence with approaches to human and non-human figuration mingling our proprioceptive, lived-in understanding of our ephemeral bodies with the slippery ineffability of spirit realms.
Photographed by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos
