Jacq Groves – Sunroom Project Space 2023

In the site-specific exhibition tending to change, Jacq Groves honors processes of transformation and the care to incite change. Incorporating traditional, industrial and plant materials, and their interactions with the Sunroom, Groves' sculptural practice explores spatial and temporal experiences of the body and investigates alternative forms of knowledge production and healing. Through strategies of abstraction and defamiliarization, Groves asks what it means to care for a living body in a socially- constructed environment.

Hand-formed ceramics inspired by Etruscan votive viscera, altars of medicinal plants in dried form and liquid extract, and intimately scaled ceramic archways replicating the windows that frame nature as spectacle, invite us to turn our gaze inward instead. Highlighting our relationship to the soil and its capacity to aid the transformative shifts in body and mind, the material reactions captured in the exhibition challenge the hierarchies between nature/culture, internal/external and imperceptible/recognizable forms of bodily knowledge and classification, offering a vow to consider reimagining as nourishment while encapsulating the passage of time and the impermanence of our bodily existence.

Public Program: Sat, Jun 17, 2 PM, Meet the Artist