Residual Body explores the threshold between presence and absence - a meditation on time, fragility, and the provisional nature of existence. Materially grounded in clay, resin, latex, polymers, and steel, the work follows a bodily logic that has begun to unravel. I'm drawn to substances that feel fragile, unstable, or bodily. I'm not trying to represent the body directly, but the materials often evoke it-like something used, abandoned, or in the process of failing.
 

I think a lot about what lingers after something disappears. Traces of functions breaking down, fragments of systems just beyond comprehension. I'm interested in that space between control and surrender, where form, logic, and meaning begin to unravel-where structures slip into ambiguity, and things seem half-built or on the verge of collapse.

 

The forms that emerge feel suspended in a state of in-between-echoing flesh, bone, or internal systems without ever fully becoming them. There's a sense of process interrupted, of something once functional now rendered obscure. In that ambiguity, the body is framed as a site of vulnerability, absurdity, and inevitable disintegration.

Nadine Schelbert is a Swiss artist based in Los Angeles. She holds degrees from Lausanne Hotel School in Switzerland and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and is currently pursuing an MFA in ceramics and sculpture at California State University, Long Beach. Born in Berlin and raised in Zurich and Geneva, Nadine has lived and worked in Japan, Hong Kong, and Ecuador before settling in Los Angeles. Her international background and early training in art, combined with professional experience in hotel management and design, continue to inform her fine art practice. Nadine's work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows in Los Angeles and internationally.