GARNER Arts Festival 2025 Digital Event Guide

BUILDING 4 EAST

ROSALIE SMITH Kaleidoscopic Intestine Curator, Jonathan Shorr

My sculptures imagine a post-human world in which the 99% of us have devolved into growths upon piles of often tech-related trash, after the 1% have jetted to Mars. I seek to depict an unsexy singularity between humans and technology; i.e., microplastics magnified to macroplastics, like an old phone receiver grafted into flesh. Each sculpture reflects the present and future pervasiveness of waste collected within, and representational of, our landscape. With a whimsical, absurdist tilt, my sculptures are inspired by the notion of navigating ecological crises with assemblage gadgets and vehicles. - Rosalie Smith, Artist Pictured: Kaleidoscopic Intestine by Rosalie Smith