Johannes Wald’s artistic practice is an inquiry into the fundamental principles of sculpture—its materials, processes, and conceptual potential. Working with marble, plaster, glass, and various metals, Wald explores how abstract ideas can be embodied in material form. His sculptures often emerge through voids, omissions, and subtle imperfections, forming a poetic and fragile language that speaks to the vulnerability of the human condition. Wald challenges traditional sculptural techniques, questioning the medium’s capacity to convey emotion and meaning. His work integrates language, symbolism and abstraction to create an intimate space for reflection, where the tangible meets the immaterial. Fragmented forms and recurring motifs serve as vessels for memory, inviting viewers to engage with both personal and collective dimensions of identity. Failure, incompletion, and imperfection are essential elements in his work, deliberate gestures that underscore the limits of representation and the elusive nature of form. His practice is deeply informed by psychoanalytic theory, particularly the ideas of Jacques Lacan. Concepts such as the stade du miroir resonate throughout his work, offering a lens through which to explore selfperception, the construction of identity, and the interplay between image and lack
