STEPHANIE GARON
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Wait
Loblolly pine needles, video projection (4:53 loop)
Site specific installation
Sound by Clint Sleeper
​2021

​An immersive, ecologically motivated intervention by humanity, Wait transplants locally sourced Loblolly pine needles into an interior gallery space. By following the Arte Povera movement, the installation questions the use of nontraditional materials as art and humanity's connection to them. Pine needes change placement, emphasizing the fragility of nature. Rich in associations, the work functions as abstracted expressions of a time, place, and way of life. The resulting artwork is a visualization of an uneasy truce: the fragile balance between nature and humanity. 
  


Wall projection (sound by Clint Sleeper)
Performance (music by Christopher Stracey)
"Garon’s show is an innovative and relatively new expansion of context and content which could have stood on its own as art as art, but Garon has taken on a far deeper task with art that can be amplified by its sources, market, and cultural impact."
-Lucy Lippard



"Garon employs decaying natural artifacts primarily as symbols of humanity's fragility. But her contrasts of hard and soft intrigue the eye as well as the mind."
​-Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post
  • Sculpture
  • Installation
  • PUBLIC
  • Drawings
  • Poetry
    • Acreage
    • Yellow Arrow >
      • Land Reckoning
      • Abandon
  • About