HUMANE ECOLOGY: EIGHT POSITIONS
EDDIE RODOLFO APARICIO
b. 1990, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles
Mano dura
2023
Cast rubber with ficus tree surface residue; latex paint, acrylic, and marker on found cloth; ceiba tree fiber; rope; wooden support
Pulmón #2
2023
Cast rubber with ficus tree surface residue; air from Los Angeles, San Salvador, and Massachusetts
Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles/Mexico City
KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI
b. 1986, Bangkok; lives and works in New York and Bangkok
Songs for dying
2021
Single-channel HD video, color, sound
30:18 minutes
Courtesy of the artist; Bangkok CityCity Gallery; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; C L E A R I N G, New York/Brussels/Los Angeles; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul
CAROLINA CAYCEDO
b. 1978, London; lives and works in Los Angeles
In Yarrow We Trust
2023
Acrylic on canvas
144 × 240 in. (365.8 × 609.6 cm)
Maternidad
2023
Acrylic on canvas
144 × 240 in. (365.8 × 609.6 cm)
Mamma Nettle Wheel
2023
Acrylic mural
150 × 150 in. (381 × 381 cm)
MI CUERPO, MI TERRITORIO
2023
Corrugated plastic, wood poles, yarn, ribbon
Dimensions variable
We Save Our Seed for the Following Season / Cada sorbo de café será una bendición para ti (Tinti)
2023
Jacquard weaving, UV acrylic, printed cotton twill, paper flowers, wood
Tapestry: 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm); wood table: 4 × 70 × 27 (10.2 × 177.8 × 68.6 cm)
We Save Our Seed for the Following Season / When You Take from Mother Earth You Can Give Back by
Sprinkling Tobacco (Ella)
2023
Jacquard weaving, UV acrylic printed cotton twill, wood, loose tobacco
Tapestry: 50 × 36 in. (127 × 91.4 cm); wood table: 4 × 46 × 46 in. (10.2 × 116.8 × 116.8 cm)
We Save Our Seed for the Following Season / Guardamos nuestra semilla para la próxima siembra (Caro)
2023
Jacquard weaving and UV acrylic printed cotton twill
42 × 60 in. (106.7 × 152.4 cm)
We Save Our Seed for the Following Season / En función de la vida sabrosa (ABIF)
2023
Jacquard weaving and UV acrylic printed cotton twill
36 × 50 in. (91.4 × 127 cm)
We Save Our Seed for the Following Season / Our Culture Is Based on Relationships with All Our Relatives (Meda)
2023
Jacquard weaving, UV acrylic printed cotton twill, paper crowberries, wood
Tapestry: 36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm); wood table: 4 × 57 × 43 in. (10.2 × 144.8 × 109.2 cm)
We Save Our Seed for the Following Season / Blooming (Akiko and Yuko)
2023
Jacquard weavings
36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Instituto de Visión, Bogotá/New York
ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON
b. 1984, Lexington, Kentucky; raised in Florida; lives and works in New York
Untitled (White Ouroboros)
2023
ASA filament, paint, resin
42 × 28 × 8 in. (106.7 × 71.1 × 20.3 cm); 45 × 29 × 8 1/2 in. (114.3 × 73.7 × 21.6 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/Aspen
JUAN ANTONIO OLIVARES
b. 1988, Bayamón, Puerto Rico; lives and works in New York
Fermi Paradox III
2019
Echinocrepis rostrata shell, Cassis madagascariensis shells, Charonia tritonis shells, Lambis lambis shells, Nautilus pompilius shells, Melo aethiopica shell, Murex ramosus shell, Syrinx aruanus shell, Triplofusus
papillosus shells, Porifera sponge, surface transducers, micro-speakers, stereo amps, coaxial cables, polyolefin-coated speaker wire, SD cards, media players, 24-channel audio file
13:34 minutes
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
CHRISTINE HOWARD SANDOVAL
b. 1975, Anaheim, California; member of the Chalon Indian Nation; lives and works in Vancouver
Ignition Pattern 1: Density
2023
Soot, bear grass, handmade paper
74 × 48 × 2 in. (188 × 121.9 × 5.1 cm)
Ignition Pattern 2: Victory Over the Sun (for Malevich)
2023
Soot, bear grass seeds, handmade paper
59 × 48 in. (149.9 × 121.9 cm)
Ignition Pattern 3: Memory of a Flood
2023
Soot, bear grass, handmade paper, cedar
40 × 83 × 20 in. (101.6 × 210.8 × 50.8 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles
PALLAVI SEN
b. 1989, Bombay; lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and New York
Experimental Greens: Trellis Composition
2023
Seeds, plant starts, soil, compost, rope, fasteners, ceramics, plaster, pigment, glass, pine, twine,
irrigation, seasonal rain, sunlight, sticks
46 × 19 ft. (14 × 5.8 m)
Courtesy of the artist
KANDIS WILLIAMS
b. 1985, Baltimore; lives and works in New York
Genes, not Genius: The overlying purpose is to address how the social production of biologically determinist racial scripts— which extend from a biocentric conception of the human—can be dislodged by bringing studies of blackness in/and science into conversation with autopoiesis, black Atlantic livingness, weights and measures, and poetry. A biocentric conception of the human, it should be noted up front, refers to the law-like order of knowledge that posits a Darwinian narrative of the human—that we are purely biological and bioevolutionary beings—as universal; elegance is elimination
2021
Collage on artificial plant, fabric grow bag with moss, plastic
92 × 41 × 18 in. (233.7 × 104.1 × 45.7 cm)
Genes, not Genius: For jazz is orgasm, it is the music of orgasm, good orgasm and bad, and so it spoke across a nation, it had the communication of art even where it was watered, perverted, corrupted, and almost killed, it spoke in no matter what laundered popular way of instantaneous existential states to which some whites could respond, it was indeed a communication by art because it said, “I feel this, and now you do too.” Virtuosity is bound to colorism, tokenism, trophyism, and the ruptures of interraciality on legacies of rape and social distortion of dark skin, reverse colorism is not real. The importance of dance in courtship and social gatherings is probably older than its use as recreation and entertainment
2021
Collage on artificial plant, fabric grow bag with moss, acrylic paint, plastic
92 × 40 × 20 in. (233.7 × 101.6 × 50.8 cm)
There are two sides to every Line
2021
Xerox collage and ink on paper
66 × 52 in. (167.6 × 132.1 cm)
Visage, uses of portrait and mask from rulers to icons through Primitivism and phenotypical hierarchy
2021
Xerox collage and ink on paper
66 × 52 in. (167.6 × 132.1 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán, Los Angeles/Mexico City