The history of violence and subjugation has consistently engaged in the appropriation, translation and transference of one thing into another. Re-assigning value, displacing ancestral cultural knowledge and often employing the very materiality that has been claimed itself as a tool for the destruction and obscuring of origins. This has involved the placement of looted objects, including the very weapons, talismans and armor used to defend against colonial invasion as museum displays dedicated to narrating cultural distinctions and hierarchies. This has also happened through the guise of the deadening of land and of the Earth’s mineral resources and their alteration into materials employed to commemorate, monumentalize and fix into eternity, marble or bronze positionings grounded in the arrogance of permanence and the veneration of power. This vision of artistic practice in the public space, this use of the public arena to place visual markers and reminders of domination, are anchored in a carefully constructed single or double point perspective, always upheld by mathematic or scientific principles. These physical markers of history are just the surface of a worldview and cultural insistence that has permeated into an atmospheric tension so extensive that its hold can seem indelible.
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Fine Toothed Combs, 2018. Wood, shoe polish, speakers. 100x60x100 cm; All Stories True, 2021. Super 8 film transfer to video. Duration: 16 min. Installation view at the British School at Rome, 2023
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Fine Toothed Combs, 2018. Wood, shoe polish, speakers. 100x60x100cm; The Age We are Living In, 2021. Super 8 film transfer to video. Duration: 6 min, 39 sec. Installation view at the British School at Rome, 2023
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Minted in Enemy Bronze, 2023. Installation view at the British School at Rome
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Fine Toothed Combs, 2018. Wood, shoe polish, speakers. 100x60x100 cm; No Victories, 2021. Super 8 film transfer to video. Duration: 13 min, 55 sec. Installation view at the British School at Rome, 2023
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Dump Seat with Rings, 2021. Wood, shoe polish, rope, embroidered handkercheif, brass, silver. 230x35x35 cm
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Jacket, 2021. Vintage military jacket, quilt fragments, shoe polish, wooden valet, mirror. 120x50x30 cm
