Uncovering the Third: Material as Relation, features work from 12 different artists investigating how materials become metaphors for expanding our understandings of our relationships with one another and our larger environment. The various mediums used to explore this theme— bricks, photographs, clay, fiber, mycelium, each carry their own dense and distinct historical contexts. By bringing together these potent mediums, we invite you to explore a “third space”. Metaphors arise through the production of objects, new arrangements produce new spaces for us to make meaning from.
We place these materials in situations and contexts so that they might be reframed and repurposed to offer an opportunity to turn us inwards or towards each other. Through their exploration of the materials, each artist creates their own metrics for positioning and understanding themselves in their corporeal, ecological, digital, ephemeral relationships. Our language is porous and so are we.
