untitled

untitled (2015–2016) by Joel Shapiro presents an abstract configuration of cast bronze elements arranged to suggest a body in motion. The sculpture reflects on movement, gesture, and psychological presence—capturing energy not through representation, but through form. Shapiro’s practice resists the binary of abstraction and figuration, proposing instead that all forms carry emotional reference.
The angular components appear to tilt, reach, or balance, inviting viewers to walk around and engage with its shifting composition.

Each angle offers a new reading: is it a stride, a leap, or a pause? By reducing the human form to essential geometry, Shapiro evokes both intimacy and ambiguity. His sculptures often feel caught mid-action—structured yet fluid, grounded yet animated. untitled offers not a fixed image, but an experience of perception and emotion in motion. It becomes a choreography of form—open-ended, alive, and shaped by the viewer’s presence.