Bekhbaatar Enkhtur

Mainly interested in creating sculptures and site-specific installations, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur manipulates easily hand-molded materials, namely clay or beeswax, alongside with engravings on aluminum, assembling an iconographic repertoire taken from the myths and traditions of Mongolia and the wider range of Central and East Asia. Drawing inspiration from the ancient Central Asian sculpting method, his sculptures often represent proud and fragile images of zoomorphic figures in a delicate tension towards the ephemeral, crafted from mediums prone to deterioration. By testing the matter and its limits, while evidencing the gesture of creation, his practice portrays themes of transience, transformation and rebirth, challenging conventional notions and promoting a deeper understanding for distinct manifestations of life. Highlighting the relations between human and other abstract living forms induced with an essence, while evoking visions of a past life, Enkhtur expresses the interconnectedness that unites all kinds of vital forces, reminding us of our shared permeability to temporal processes of mutation within a space of coexistence.