Re-Master

About

What does it mean to create new work in our contemporary environment? New things proliferate, yet so many are forgotten. The spine breaks on a library book and the cover falls off, never to be returned. We throw out the shower curtains we bought for our last apartment. We rinse and repeat. Unsent postcards collect dust under a stack of old photographs. In our increasingly reticulated world, why do we feel so alienated from things of our own making?

Re-Master features artists who work with things on hand to intercede in the hegemonic discourse of newness, speed, and growth at all costs. We transform objects through cycles of use and abandonment, each time imbuing them with our memories, our labor, and our DNA. By repurposing materials and the histories they contain, the artists in ReMaster re-activate our connections to not just things, but to ourselves, our work, and the ecosystem of relations within which we exist.