Bridget Polk (b. 1960, lives and works in Portland, U.S.A.) makes balancing rock installations. These impossible sculptures are held in place thanks to a precarious equilibrium that defies the laws of gravity in order to “organize chaos,” according to Bridget Polk.

 As an architect of ephemeral and nomadic worlds using stones found here and there along her way, she uses meditation and time as means of approaching and transforming the world.

Each erected sculpture is held in suspension and contains an uncertainty: the uncertainty of a longevity ranging from a few seconds to a few days, forcing the creator to constantly rebuild what falls down and to always give new forms to these worlds in the making. Using man-made materials including cinderblocks, bricks, broken concrete walkways and statues as well as rocks and stone slabs shaped by the elements, Bridget Polk builds architectures where “natural” and “cultural” worlds meet.