ZEVIN DELASKI
POST SHOW VOL. 2
Zevin Delaski is a durational installation artist working mainly in sculpture and time-based media. His work examines the playful, absurd, and dialectical aspects of societal structure, hidden in plain sight. Through animating home, garden, and administrative aesthetics, Delaski allows consumer objects to speak for themselves, exploring how elements of an overperforming capitalist economy become a part of habitual life practice. Embedded within his work is a sense of hesitation, contemplation, and organization surrounding mechanical, manufactured, and personal narratives of the overall human consumption of circulated goods. Culminations of habitats, breathe, grin, and shiver delightfully reinvent how the consumer object moves through our daily lives.“I want to show you the initial framework, how the object/material resides in its common place, and then how it begins to define a life of its own in a space directly parallel to its societal one. My sculptures reorder common building materials, taking them out of their systems and contexts and into routines made strange— an uncanny adjustment of their efficiency and value. Intertwined in a cycle of breaking and fixing, the momentum of our everyday stuff becomes a relational form. The crumbs hidden in the cracks, the stove left on, the scratches on the wall, the imprints in a shag carpet, a smiling outlet, a whispering vent, tears of a faucet, the cough of an engine.”