Carlie Trosclair. Relics of passage

About

Approached through a lens of reordering and discovery, Trosclair’s work contemplates the living and transitional components of home. Architectural bodies carry with them the layered histories of previous residents. These become the shells we leave behind; Relics of habitation and home-making.

Using latex as an architectural skin, ghostlike casts reshape the narrative of home as a sturdy secure space into one that is vulnerable and ephemeral. Echoes of the familiar are absorbed into the membrane of each latex cavity, crystallizing textures and detritus of place.

For her solo exhibition, relics of passage, Trosclair highlights thoroughfares that are no longer accessible. Sculptures of an impassible archway, doors that open into one another, a reflectionless mirror, etc. traverse the gallery. Once portals between planes, these hollow forms negate their intended function. A molted memory of transience and connection.