Kiah Celeste’s second solo exhibition with Swivel, “To Be Held For A Long Time”, opens May 6th, from 6 to 9 PM at 555 Greenwich Street. Featuring an array of new floor and wall sculptures, expanding on the artists intuitive utilization of objects and everyday materials to create concoctions that are at once familiar, and contrarily foreign and feckless. Her new body of work relies on a deep connection between humans and the environment, as well as the subtle boundaries and transitions between them.
Kiah Celeste’s work ingeniously manipulates the remnants of both urban and natural landscapes, contemplating a maker’s capacity to deploy creative and inventive means to re-imagine their surroundings. While the constituents of each piece are extracted from natural and man-made systems, Celeste imagines new narratives that restore balance to the objects—an opportunity for them to fit in and function once again. Leaning, stacking, or hanging, her works echo the strategies of postminimalism in their harnessing of gravity, tension, friction, and resistance.
