Emily Hermant: In slow relief, the bright threads of a dream

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Emily Hermant, "Core I," 2021

pigmented silicone rubber, steel structure. 81.5" x 78.5"

Confirmed to open this Saturday, November 27th. 

Opening reception, 12pm - 5pm.

Monte Clark is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Emily Hermant. This will be Hermant’s first solo presentation with the gallery. On view are a selection of new wire and silicone sculptures.

Hermant’s intricate and dynamic sculptures are reminiscent of pieced and woven textiles. Comprised of interwoven communication cables, her vivid depictions of night sky phenomena are derived from digital references and technical glitching software. Voluminous sculptures built from layered cables take on billowing forms, evoking topographic and sedimentary formations.

Suspended sculptures cast in silicone present an inventive and visually striking exploration of form, pattern and colour. Recalling early computer motherboards made from woven wire, these sculptures are pieced together in grid formations, concealing the conductive potential of the wires. From a distance, the works resemble colourful quilts, challenging the audience to look closer in search of clues to the underlying patterns and digital debris that inform her constructions.

Emily Hermant’s work explores themes of communication, technology, craft, and gendered labour. The critical position guiding her practice is employing slowness as methodology to counter the speed of moving information in our rapidly changing technological landscapes. She utilizes ordinary, often discarded, materials and labour-intensive handmaking processes that originate from and make reference to textiles to generate new modes of representing the proliferation of digital connections and (mis)communication in contemporary life. Her aims are to encourage new ways of slow looking, and to explore unusual means for viewers to experience phenomena which synchronously invoke the very close/slow and the very distant/fast.