Platter YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS, 2022

Cameron Platter – YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS

Cameron Platter In his work, he filters the vast flood of information and material of our present – in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way. With an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach, he deliberately crosses the boundaries between high and pop culture and subverts them. In doing so, he draws on everyday, unconventional, fragmented, and often overlooked sources, which he places in new, often disturbing contexts.

His sculpture YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS The work from 2022 consists of carved wooden representations of plastic buckets, buckets and concrete bricks. These were cast in bronze and assembled into a large-scale, totemic, anthropomorphic assemblage.

Platter uses materials and objects from his immediate surroundings and transforms them into fantasy images – with the aim of creating something magical. As he himself explains, his goal is to shape something human from seemingly lifeless things: to inject life into the objects, to give them meaning – and in doing so to question our relationship with the built and lived environment.

The selected elements – the stool, the bucket, the brick – are symbols of everyday life, often perceived as banal or even as waste. We encounter them daily, yet pay them little attention. By selecting them from wood, modeling them in clay, and finally casting them in bronze, Platter transforms these objects into a kind of contemplative transformation. The artistic process itself thus becomes a meditative exploration of our present and existence.

The seemingly absurd transformation into durable bronze objects points to the contradictions of our time: Despite all technological advances and artistic self-indulgence, it is precisely those banal, unnoticed things—disposable products—whether made of plastic or metal—that endure.

My work stems from what surrounds me directly. The inconspicuous things of my everyday life, what is often overlooked. I capture them, transform them, and create something fantastic from them.

It is an attempt to coax the ordinary into a magic that brings something magical out of the seemingly nothing. I breathe a little humanity into lifeless, unnoticed objects: a soul, a gesture, a story.