Leo Babsky (b. 19 January 1982) is an English sculptor and visual artist. Babsky's work examines the troubling psychological concerns of containment, control attraction and revulsion. Tactile and flexible elements reference post-minimalism but combined into new structural landscapes, discuss both the obsessional and the sexual.

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  • Leo Babsky (b. 19 January 1982) is an English sculptor and visual artist. Babsky's work examines the troubling psychological concerns of containment, control attraction and revulsion. Tactile and flexible elements reference post-minimalism but combined into new structural landscapes, discuss both the obsessional and the sexual. Using the conceptual models that surround minimalism, Babsky explores personal and social concerns of psyhcological impulses toward dark or destructive forms of behaviour, particularly found during youth and within subcultures. Treading a fine line between attraction and revulsion, carefully crafted elements draw the attention of the viewer in, only to leave an unsettling aftertaste. Flashes of psychedelic colour in an otherwise muted palette reference dance and drug culture - highlighting the contrast between the glamourous surfaces and dark flip sides of these activities. The use of rubber throughout the pieces permeates the work with a sexual undercurrent referencing gay and fetish subcultures whilst also adhering to the minimalist ethos of using basic, industrial materials.
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  • Leo Babsky (b. 19 January 1982) is an English sculptor and visual artist. Babsky's work examines the troubling psychological concerns of containment, control attraction and revulsion. Tactile and flexible elements reference post-minimalism but combined into new structural landscapes, discuss both the obsessional and the sexual.
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