엘리 케슬러 개인전
CICA Museum, M Gallery
August 21 – 25, 2024
2024.08.21 – 25
Interface Inversion
Eli Kessler approaches art-making as a way to examine particular artifacts, rituals, and cultural phenomena. Within Kessler’s artwork, materials and iconography are cut up, rematerialized, and arranged to find meaning. For this exhibition—Interface Inversion—Kessler created a series of new artworks that examine the dynamic between technology, culture, and nature by incorporating imagery, forms, and materials from various points in time. The exhibition combines popularized science fiction and horror entertainment tropes with references to contemporary robotics and past historic technologies like the spinning wheel and wood carving. Various representations of humans, animals, machines, and landscapes are paired with abstracted elements to contemplate how human developments have impacted culture and ecology. Processes such as metal fabrication, woodworking, and digital fabrication techniques intermix history and materiality. The resulting artwork addresses the implications of complex social structures and offers a glimpse into ideological shifts throughout time.
Eli Kessler is a visual artist from Pennsylvania who earned a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Kessler’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Texas, South Dakota, New York, Washington D.C., West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Italy, and South Korea. Kessler’s recent work analyzes existence within a world of hyper-digital industrialization and ecological uncertainty.
