over and over and over and - Curated by Katie Lawson

Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti

Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024 artLAB Gallery. Photography by Dickson Bou

To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…