REMAINS presents the work of 6 emergent artists working in the fields of contemporary sculpture, installation, and new media.
Materials and memories- remains are the lively afterlives of things.To remain isn’t to be rigid or immobile, as the imperative ‘remain!’ implies. Remains are finicky and not easily categorized, stuff that is left over around the edges or that has wiggled free from its original context. A transformation from an original to a remnant raises questions about iteration, copy, and decay. Networks of remnants contract and connect distant places and times, and the remnant object allows for an exploded notion of presence that exists in multiplicity.
Ariane Labbé and Marina Diolaitti explore temporality in their works. Labbé’s churning machine “Dry Displacement” is a poetic expression of order and entropy in deep time. In “Left to a next of kin”, Diolaitti captures moments of time as a suspended sequence of materials in tension, reinterpreting linear notions of past and future.
Caro Simon examines the body-infrastructure relationship in “Residuum”, inspired by connecting systems of water basins hidden below the city. This forgotten infrastructure is memorialized by Simon in playful anti-monumental works. Callum Donovan-Grujicich’s “Medieval Corner” similarly displaces functional architecture into a gallery space, activating a corner with a representation of an archaic groin vault. Sohyun Yoon collects urban architectural moments in “Remnant Project’ and explores how their preservation in a video archive changes the viewer’s relationship to them.
In “Next of Kin”, “Eros”, and “Til Death Do Us Part”, Patrick Stochmal finds the remnants of shared queer intimacies as dynamic entities of their own, living and dying over again. In Stochmal’s work, the forested suburban enclave as a left-over and forgotten area of infrastructure presents alternative potentials in the heart of the prescriptive suburbs.