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| Cochayuyo, HD video, 9:32, 3-channel, dual projection
screens, 13 x 8 feet, 2014 |
In my pursuit of the physicality
of form I use a wide range of elemental media to render sculptures that defy
their native qualities. Hard becomes soft, soft becomes hard, gestures are
frozen. Natural objects, flotsam, and ‘naturalized’ garbage, combined with
studio-generated objects, suggest a post-human natural history of the future.
Sculpture, video, and large-scale digital prints work together to depict the
struggle between the human drive to create lasting symbols of culture, and
Nature’s indifferent, persistent erasure of these symbols.
The
landscape is distilled into distinctive objects that are charged with elements
of the alien or unknown. I mold cochayuyo (kelp
that grows on the shores of Chile) into cuboidal forms that merge the
mechanical with the organic. Sponges are translated into bronze so that they
resemble pumice, and natural materials take on the qualities of mass-produced, anthropogenic objects. The work explores
entropy and the passing of time by imitating exogenous geologic processes such
as erosion caused by wind, water, ice, and human activity. In the exhibition Club Disminución, a fossil
of a credit card heralds a post-consumer future, beyond the Era of the
Anthropocene.
Essay by Christina Schmid in
response to “Club Disminución"
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| Credit Card (fossil), casting cement, found Trilobite fossil, 3 x 5 x 1 inches, 2014 |
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Cochayuyo (Installation View), dimensions variable, arctic kelp,
2012. Installation using found arctic kelp during an artist residency at Casa Poli, Coliumo, Chile.
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| Cloud Cave (Installation View), dimensions variable, cast bronze, inkjet print, polished steel, brass rod, 2011 |
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| Cloud, brass rod, paint, 42” x 52” x 36”, 2011 |
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Cave, inkjet, Dibond, polished steel,
30” x 50” x 40”, 2011
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| Tall Ships, 2011, 17” x 4.5” x 18” (each), bronze, 2011 |
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Rock,2012, 48” x 46” x 55”, stainless steel rod, polished, stainless steel
Rock is defined by both the reflection on the surface of the polished steel base and the lines
forming the sculpture.
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Alexa Horochowski grew up in Patagonia, Argentina, and immigrated with her family to the United States when she was nine years old. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including, Braga Menendez Gallery, Buenos Aires; The Drawing Center, NYC; Praxis International Art, NYC/Miami; Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota; The Soap Factory, Minneapolis. Horochowski was awarded artist residencies at, El Basilisco, Argentina, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, United States, and Casa Poli, Chile. Horochowski is Full Professor of Sculpture at St. Cloud State University, and a 2014 McKnight Fellow. Horochowski’s work is in collections at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center.
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