The Undoing

2016

post-industrial foam sheeting

LACE | Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

The Undoing converts a gallery corridor into a provisional site by sheathing its walls and ceiling in overlapping sheets of foam sheeting, softening the architecture while heightening spatial awareness. Its reliance on humble, industrial material situates the work within the lineage of Arte Povera, a movement that rejected polished spectacle in favor of raw, transient substances whose physical properties of fragility and impermanence remain legible. The insulated surfaces suggest shelter, erasure, and sublimity.  In elevating a disposable material into a spatial environment, the installation extends Arte Povera’s challenge to institutional hierarchies of value, proposing simplicity and restraint as the primary sculptural language.

Select photos by Chris Wormald