Jaundice Sky
2019
Acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame
19 × 23.5 in.
Exhibition
a listless witness
Installation views
Works
sentinels3
2019
Polyurethane resin, pigment, and acrylic on canvas
72 × 48 in.
sentinels4
2019
Polyurethane resin, pigment, and acrylic on canvas
72 × 48 in.
sentinels2
2019
Polyurethane resin, pigment, and acrylic on canvas
72 × 48 in.
sentinels5
2019
Polyurethane resin, pigment, and acrylic on canvas
72 × 48 in.
aging15
2018
Polyurethane resin, acrylic, and Venetian plaster on canvas
42.5 × 32.75 in.
aging14
2018
Polyurethane resin, acrylic, and Venetian plaster on canvas
42.5 × 32.75 in.
Frostbitten Elder Troll
2019
Mixed media and polycaprolactone, synthetic hair, semi-precious stones, moss
42.5 × 18 × 32 in.
a listless witness centers on memory, mortality, and the unstable position of the observer. The exhibition holds the future and the past in tension: each work appears to register what has already happened while remaining alert to what has not yet arrived.
The poured surfaces of the sentinels paintings form disorienting, face-like presences that seem to look back at the viewer. The ongoing aging series treats portraiture as an accumulation rather than a likeness, producing autoportraits in which identity is built through material change, damage, and duration.
Across the exhibition, witnessing is neither neutral nor complete. To look is to occupy time, to confront the limits of recognition, and to become implicated in the changing forms through which a life is remembered.
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Original exhibition text by Lara Konrad. Photography copyright and courtesy of the artist and ASHES/ASHES.