The sculptures emerge from a sustained investigation into modernist sculptural history and process-based practice. Wall-mounted works constructed from reclaimed powder-coated steel — reduced to their structural logic — occupy the space between object, body and architecture. Hung in deliberate asymmetry, their warped geometries and protruding pipe elements signal a body and system under stress.
Central to the work is a parallel between pressure of object under stress and then body after an event, as reflections of contemporary human communication. This resonates with Byung-Chul Han's diagnosis in The Burnout Society, where modern life is understood as a condition of self-inflicted exhaustion — a culture that has mistaken relentless productivity for meaning. The fragile, provisional objects become physical registers of this condition. Materials are assembled with porous attention to time, passed eras, and accumulated residue. They undergo reconstruction — broken apart, reassembled, mutated across different periods — insisting on duration and return as acts of resistance against hyperactivity and erasure.
What can a machine-based hierarchy — a "perfect object culture" — offer back to the humbled human form? The work continues to probe sculptural history, political power structures, and the consequences of inventions that destabilize the object. In their tilt and refusal to resolve, the work models a quiet, structural resistance.
Caitlin Slegr Ross (b. Slegr/ b. 1981, Los Angeles, CA) is a Czech / American living in Los Angeles. Caiti received her MFA in sculpture from Milton Avery School of Art, Bard College (2017), where she also received an MFA fellowship (2014 – 2016) and a teaching fellowship from Bard College in 2015. In addition, she received a teaching fellowship from Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA 2017 – 2018 and she received her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2003-2006). Select solo and group exhibitions include Scope, Tri-Cluster in Berlin, DE (2024); Ruth Gallery, Pasadena, CA (2023); Hermitage, Los Angeles, (2022); Incident Report, Hudson, New York, (2016), Ono, Los Angeles, CA (2016); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (2015); Waterfront, Kingston, NY (2015); Autonomie, Los Angeles CA (2012); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2008); Compact Space, Los Angeles, CA (2006); Washington Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2005); ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2005). Caitlin (Caiti Slegr) Ross is Art Department Chairperson and faculty at Immaculate Heart High School in Loz Feliz and lives in Los Angeles.
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