0.11.18.4.H.OAX.19/2
“Contact” at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 2022
Group exhibition at Flaherty Film Seminar, 2022
The work on view is part of a project centered around a ceramic replica of an elephant’s tusk collected from Malawi in 1900, currently housed at the Natural History Museum in London. Through film, photography, legal documents, organic objects, and text, the project meditates on the tactility of museological and ecological conservation across continents. The resulting fragments invite reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, embodiments, and the materiality of institutions.
0.11.18.4.H.OAX.19/2
2019
ceramic, jarina seed
Replica made from elephant tusk specimen “NHMUK.1900.11.18.4” at Natural History Museum, London through the process of creating renderings built from photographs, Zcorp 3D printing, plaster mould and ceramic slip casting with the assistance of Joel Seidner. Jarina seed inside.
Artwork courtesy of the artist
Vegetable Ivory
2019
inkjet print
Photograph by Thierry Bal of Richard Sabin inspecting a vegetable ivory seed (aka jarina seed) that lives inside of the ceramic tusk during its donation to London’s Natural History Museum.
Artwork courtesy of the artist
X-ray of 0.11.18.4.H.OAX.19
2019
inkjet print
X-ray of ceramic tusk replica “0.11.18.4.H.OAX.19” taken by Angela Chang at Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums.
Artwork courtesy of the artist
Untitled
2018
A4 letter
Artwork courtesy of the artist with permission from London’s Natural History Museum to reproduce and exhibit their logo.
