Jennifer Rose Sciarrino: Ruffled Follicles and a Tangled Tongue
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Southern Alberta Art Gallery 601 3 Avenue S, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 0H4
Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, "Ruffled Follicles and A Tangled Tongue," 2018
Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery
Jennifer Rose Sciarrino's installation is comprised of blown glass and carved stone bearing the resemblance of microscopic cells of seeds, spores and bacteria on a magnified scale.
The sculptures are held in precarious positions by their steel armatures, a likeness to the gestures of taking and receiving of such cellular information. An alabaster dandelion seed resembling a tongue, reaches towards a split glass archaea that may remind us of a kidney. Aspects of life are enlarged and entangled, creating likely or uncommon relationships in the complex systems of worlding.
Jennifer Rose Sciarrino is a Toronto based artist working in sculpture, video and installation. Her work considers our cause/ effect relationship with the living world as well as the underlying entanglement of the micro and macro within nature and technology.