About the exhibition
Featuring ingestible biomaterial sculptures by Gwenyth Chao, the (re)imagined bodies and worlds in her work are situated in depleted sites across our exhausted planet in a time after the age of capitalist extraction. Chao’s experiments speculate that the materials – for sustenance, building, creative endeavors – of our near futures will be made of reconstituted debris. She transmutes food refuse into artmaking materials like gels, clays, composites, plastics and paper. Her process explores the possibilities for a necessarily emergent practice to be informed by an ecological awareness. Chao…
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