Tanya Brodsky

Esutcheon, 2025

Through bronze casts of doors, keyholes, and vents, as well as drawings of hardware showroom displays, Tanya Brodsky isolates utilitarian objects from their original contexts, transforming them into relics suspended between functionality and memory. For Escutcheon (2025), the artist elaborates, “The bronze free-standing sculpture is a partial cast of two sides of a door that I found on the street outside my house when my neighbors were remodeling. The two bronze elements are mounted to a custom-built nickel-plated museological display structure and fitted with a real doorknob, pulled from the same salvaged door. The bronze elements are mounted slightly further apart than in their real-life counterpart, leaving an empty interior space and revealing the backs of the casts. It’s part of a series of bronze casts of architectural fragments that I’ve been working on for the last couple of years.”

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