IMMORTAL
Interventions in Time
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Divya Anantharaman
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Alexander O'Harro (furniture restoration)
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Celeste Morton
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![sculpture on dresser top made of woven fibers, still life of fruit and skull with horns]()
Caitlin McCormack
Why do humans cherish objects beyond the original context that they were created? Heirlooms, souvenirs, and collectables play an important role in the memories, moods, and identities of people across many generations and cultures. Through paintings, sculpture, taxidermy, and furniture restoration, the show, Immortal, explores some of the ways that we, as people, try to intervene in the natural process of decay, or loss, in order to disrupt our perception of time through objects. Featuring artists Divya Anantharaman, Caitlin McCormack, Celeste Morton, and Alexander O’Harro.
Automat Collective, Philadelphia, March 5th through April 2, 2022.
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Ariel Tobing
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Stephen Shaheen
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Emily Baker
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Noah Furman
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In this co-curation with Tess Wei, seven artists: Emily Baker, Noah Furman, Samantha Herman, Carrie Ruddick, Steve Shaheen, Brandon Straus, and Ariel Tobing, broadly consider the landscape of preservation, culling ideas and materials from personal memories, collective archives and temporary or fluctuating spaces. The latitude of their inquiries is echoed in their materials, which include steel, moving image, marble, paper and salt dough. With varying degrees of gravitas, each artist offers their own scaffolding for how to keep, how to remember, and how to contextualize whatever may be fleeting or fading in our lives – impressions, industries, strangers.
Automat Collective, Philadelphia, April 2nd through Aprtil 29th, 2021