Artist Statement

 

I am presenting work that confronts the viewer with an experience that is both spatial and visceral. This use of materials that have a mundane or residual nature is suggestive of a process of addition, division and expansive megalomania, which has its own internal logic and intricate structure. My materials evoke a visual slippage from accumulation to deterioration and from beauty to base, all to blur the distinction between object and subject. By compiling silent information (or residues), an accrual of bits reveals a new order, or maybe even an entirely new object or material, and exposes the subtle possibility of an alternative cosmology.

 

-Andrea Gaydos Landau