Oren Pinhassi at Dallas Contemporary

Into Your Arm's Length, Dallas, TX, US

In Into Your Arm's Length Oren Pinhassi brings together a series of large-scale, anthropomorphic sculptures and architectural forms that transform Dallas Contemporary's gallery into an immersive environment. Blurring the boundaries between bodies and buildings, his works evoke familiar architectural structures while suggesting organic, bodily forms. Through suggestive openings, cavities, protrusions, and unexpected configurations, Pinhassi explores the ways spaces invite intimacy, establish boundaries, and mediate encounters between individuals. His sculptures occupy an ambiguous space between attraction and unease, prompting questions about desire, vulnerability, physical contact, and the possibilities of mutual understanding.

Working primarily with sand, plaster, burlap, and welded steel, Pinhassi employs a labour-intensive process of layering and construction that emphasises the tactile qualities and inherent instability of his materials. His practice, which he describes as a form of “erotic construction,” draws on the sensual appeal of surfaces, textures, and forms to challenge fixed ideas about the body and its relationship to the built environment. Neither entirely human nor architectural, his sculptures exist as hybrid structures that suggest a world in which bodies and environments are continually shaping and transforming one another.

Into Your Arm’s Length is curated by Janine Mileaf, organised by The Arts Club of Chicago, and supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.