Title: Consumables (11092024)
Year: 2024
Materials: display refrigerator, solar-powered battery
storage system, butter, key chain, vinyl
Year: 2024
Materials: display refrigerator, solar-powered battery
storage system, butter, key chain, vinyl
Images:
Daniel Pérez Courtesy of Swiss Institute
Daniel Pérez Courtesy of Swiss Institute
Consumables (11092024)
Part of a series of sculptures exploring the literal and figurative power of the sun. Symbolic objects like emblems, and in this case, a house key, are cast from perishable or organic materials like butter, shea butter, and chocolate. These items are preserved in a display refrigerator powered by a battery system that has been charged up using the sun. Perishable symbols that would normally melt in the sun, now rely on it to maintain their form.
Part of a series of sculptures exploring the literal and figurative power of the sun. Symbolic objects like emblems, and in this case, a house key, are cast from perishable or organic materials like butter, shea butter, and chocolate. These items are preserved in a display refrigerator powered by a battery system that has been charged up using the sun. Perishable symbols that would normally melt in the sun, now rely on it to maintain their form.
Title: Flesh Tones
Year: 2023
Materials: mixed-media
Year: 2023
Materials: mixed-media
Images:
Clare Gatto and Cranbrook Art Museum
Clare Gatto and Cranbrook Art Museum
Flesh Tones Solo Exhibition
Flesh Tones encompasses a celebration of community brought together through industry while also exposing the complicated nature of aligning identity and well-being with material possessions. Arder’s work memorializes the often obsolete, ephemeral residue of a system at a crossroads in a time of climate change. Rather than a melancholy goodbye to the proverbial, resource-intensive machine, she offers an optimistic rebirth through a demonstration of solar power. Arder harnesses the source of renewable energy to ask who is keeping whom—or what—alive in a time defined by inextricable human-machine relationships. This solo exhibition was presented at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
Flesh Tones encompasses a celebration of community brought together through industry while also exposing the complicated nature of aligning identity and well-being with material possessions. Arder’s work memorializes the often obsolete, ephemeral residue of a system at a crossroads in a time of climate change. Rather than a melancholy goodbye to the proverbial, resource-intensive machine, she offers an optimistic rebirth through a demonstration of solar power. Arder harnesses the source of renewable energy to ask who is keeping whom—or what—alive in a time defined by inextricable human-machine relationships. This solo exhibition was presented at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
Title: Consumables
Year: 2023
Materials: Display refrigerator, solar-powered battery storage system, shea butter, butter, chocolate, plastic, light
Year: 2023
Materials: Display refrigerator, solar-powered battery storage system, shea butter, butter, chocolate, plastic, light
Images:
Clare Gatto
Clare Gatto
Consumables
Part of a series of sculptures exploring the literal and figurative power of the sun. The artist created a mold from her late father’s Cadillac hood ornament, and cast new ornaments in shea butter, butter, and chocolate. These symbols are preserved in a display refrigerator powered by a battery system that has been charged up using the sun. These perishable materials represent deeper connections between the artist’s family and the automotive industry. Perishable icons that would normally melt in the sun, now rely on it to maintain their form.
Part of a series of sculptures exploring the literal and figurative power of the sun. The artist created a mold from her late father’s Cadillac hood ornament, and cast new ornaments in shea butter, butter, and chocolate. These symbols are preserved in a display refrigerator powered by a battery system that has been charged up using the sun. These perishable materials represent deeper connections between the artist’s family and the automotive industry. Perishable icons that would normally melt in the sun, now rely on it to maintain their form.
Title: Broadcast #4
Year: 2024
Materials: wood, plastic crates, Black Bottom Detroit soil, brass, hardware, seeds, paper, speakers, mixer, drum machine, audio cables, sound composition
Year: 2024
Materials: wood, plastic crates, Black Bottom Detroit soil, brass, hardware, seeds, paper, speakers, mixer, drum machine, audio cables, sound composition
Images:
Chris Gardner Courtesy of NXTHVN
Chris Gardner Courtesy of NXTHVN
Broadcast #4
Part of an ongoing series of objects that uses sound to sew seeds onto beds of soil. The work explores “broadcast” as a concept referring to both data transmission and to the random dispersal of seeds in agricultural practices.
Part of an ongoing series of objects that uses sound to sew seeds onto beds of soil. The work explores “broadcast” as a concept referring to both data transmission and to the random dispersal of seeds in agricultural practices.
Title: heavy metal (overture)
Year: 2024
Materials: single-channel video, color, sound, steel, hardware, 9 min.
Year: 2024
Materials: single-channel video, color, sound, steel, hardware, 9 min.
Images:
Ash Arder
Ash Arder
heavy metal (overture)
An experimental film charting the artist’s process and journey toward re-rendering tools and systems of war as rituals, ceremonies and stories of healing and liberation for Black Americans in collective and personal archives. The work takes inspiration from the build and launch processes of two different United States Navy vessels named for George Washington Carver.
An experimental film charting the artist’s process and journey toward re-rendering tools and systems of war as rituals, ceremonies and stories of healing and liberation for Black Americans in collective and personal archives. The work takes inspiration from the build and launch processes of two different United States Navy vessels named for George Washington Carver.
