Draper Experiment by Jacintha Clark
December 6, 2019 – February 23, 2020
E. Avery Draper Gallery
Jacintha Clark’s devotion to porcelain takes on new forms in RECONSTITUTE by straying from traditional expectations and encounters with clay as a sculptural medium. Clark’s installation serves as a physical transformation where conditions of time, memory, and nature are constantly negotiated in relation to the viewer. Her work questions the creation, limitation, and invasion of space through material and psychological means.
The Draper Experiment is not only for experimental artwork or performance, but is, in itself, an experiment, embodying The Delaware Contemporary’s mission of innovative opportunities for contemporary artists. Clark’s exhibition is an experiment within her practice as she uses clay in all of its forms and highlights the material molding a narrative that aims to arouse curiosity and question the politics of the image. Clay slip on the walls will fall over time into the vitrines filled with water below to reconstitute itself back into clay while revealing parts of a historic painted ornament from where it fell. Her boxes contain a theatrical world that references a primordial feeling of the desert as well as encounters of decorative arts and magical spaces to daydream.
December 6, 2019 – February 23, 2020
E. Avery Draper Gallery
Jacintha Clark’s devotion to porcelain takes on new forms in RECONSTITUTE by straying from traditional expectations and encounters with clay as a sculptural medium. Clark’s installation serves as a physical transformation where conditions of time, memory, and nature are constantly negotiated in relation to the viewer. Her work questions the creation, limitation, and invasion of space through material and psychological means.
The Draper Experiment is not only for experimental artwork or performance, but is, in itself, an experiment, embodying The Delaware Contemporary’s mission of innovative opportunities for contemporary artists. Clark’s exhibition is an experiment within her practice as she uses clay in all of its forms and highlights the material molding a narrative that aims to arouse curiosity and question the politics of the image. Clay slip on the walls will fall over time into the vitrines filled with water below to reconstitute itself back into clay while revealing parts of a historic painted ornament from where it fell. Her boxes contain a theatrical world that references a primordial feeling of the desert as well as encounters of decorative arts and magical spaces to daydream.
Artwork made with clay slip and crushed clay