Nina Canell
Brief Syllable (Gum Shelf), 2017
gaveta e chiclete de pistache
shelf and pistachio gum
shelf and pistachio gum
dimensões variáveis
Titulo en ingles: Brief Syllable (Gum Shelf) Like much of Canell’s practice, her body of work 'Brief Syllables' stresses a materiality that, ever so paradoxically, tethers the intangible. Nina Canell...
Titulo en ingles: Brief Syllable (Gum Shelf)
Like much of Canell’s practice, her body of work "Brief Syllables" stresses a materiality that, ever
so paradoxically, tethers the intangible. Nina Canell first became interested in mastic when she saw a piece of Neolithic chewing gum displayed in a Finnish archaeological museum. (We’re warned that swallowed gum might stay in our stomachs for seven years, but 7,000 years is something else.) The preservation of this bit of gum seemed at odds with the substance’s generally pliable disposition, and Canell took this as an invitation to consider the nature of gum’s material state changes. Using wood columns, industrial poles, and, at the Institute, an austere shelving system, Canell’s latest body of work investigates mastic’s viscous potential and figures sculpture itself as a transformative material process. Material volatility, brought on by the storage and transfer of energy—this is central to Canell’s work.
Like much of Canell’s practice, her body of work "Brief Syllables" stresses a materiality that, ever
so paradoxically, tethers the intangible. Nina Canell first became interested in mastic when she saw a piece of Neolithic chewing gum displayed in a Finnish archaeological museum. (We’re warned that swallowed gum might stay in our stomachs for seven years, but 7,000 years is something else.) The preservation of this bit of gum seemed at odds with the substance’s generally pliable disposition, and Canell took this as an invitation to consider the nature of gum’s material state changes. Using wood columns, industrial poles, and, at the Institute, an austere shelving system, Canell’s latest body of work investigates mastic’s viscous potential and figures sculpture itself as a transformative material process. Material volatility, brought on by the storage and transfer of energy—this is central to Canell’s work.