The series of sculptures are entitled Sediment Salad and they are comprised of tropical fruits, vegetables and consumer products dipped into concrete,
decaying over the course of the exhibition and reflecting on modern day consumerism.
Not exact matches
She chooses these elemental materials for their entropic properties; their fragility and tendency toward
decay results in works in which change is visible
over the
course of a single
exhibition.
This
exhibition presents Zoe Leonard's Analogue — a landmark photographic project conceived
over the
course of a decade — which documents, in 412 color and black - and - white photographs, the eclipsed texture
of 20th - century urban life as seen in little bodegas, mom - and - pop stores with
decaying facades and quirky handwritten signs, and shop windows displaying a mixed assortment
of products.
As opposed to the gilded potato leaves, these flowers gradually
decay underneath the glass
over the
course of the
exhibition, becoming faint, shadowy forms.
Over the
course of the
exhibition, the flowers blacken and
decay, contrasting with the gold and bronze sculptures and highlighting the opposition between the instability
of the natural materials and the permanence
of the cast objects.