Manta Ray

Rorich has a whimsical and playful relationship with the ocean. His bronze and recycled aluminium sculptures share a similar playfulness and movement to Johan Steyn’s work. In his work, we see the relational entanglements of species, with animal and human subjects engaging and touching each other in tactile and curious ways. Rorich is an endurance runner, who traverses great distances on foot. These adventurous and wild feats of stamina somehow touch his artistic work, with the rough movements of clay in his initial sculpting process being kept and treasured in the bronzed forms. The texture, and movement of the sculpture’s substance itself, has this primordial quality, and reveals to us, how we are always becoming, always shaped and being shaped by our world. The series selected for “Nothing Comes Without its World'' reflects an ongoing process of becoming and ‘becoming with’ others.