Translated from Japanese by Gaku Kondo Yuko Mohri creates kinetic sound installations from reconfigured audio components and found everyday objects—everything from discarded furniture, motors, and rolls of paper to light bulbs and water. Networked assemblages that respond to the context in which they are fabricated, her multisensory environments form unique and changeable energy courses, their
Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s large-scale, tactile sculptures occupy a place of possibility between abstraction and figuration, exploring the parameters and constraints of the human body.
Recipient of the 2023 Innovator Award Ogwado Joachim, who lives and works in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, has built a vibrant and community-spirited body of work in public spaces, using single-use plastics as his material of choice.
Peter Buggenhout sees all the “rubble” of our spoiled world as salvageable, remaking glass, plastic, stone, steel, and dust into the flesh and bones of unearthly sculptures born of defunct and abandoned stuff long dissolved into uselessness.
EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Barn Gallery The artists conjure big effects from modest means, fixing textured masses of excelsior—also known as wood wool—to the gallery walls. Thousands of coiled shavings mass together into a tangled pelt that rambles like kudzu, blurring the room’s edges.
Scottish artist Martin Boyce draws on the imagery of everyday urban living to create sculptural and wall-based works that conflate and confuse notions of exterior and interior, natural and manufactured.
BATH, U.K. The Holburne Museum Lowndes, who died in 2010, trained in ceramics, attending the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London from 1955 to 1958, at a time when experimentation was at a peak. Both teachers and students were at the heart of that movement for change, and the Central School was a crucible for the new, the inventive, and the downright strange.
