In standing by the fall, Meredith Emery, Dodd MFA candidate, considers the entanglement of the individual, ecological communities, and institutions in the climate crisis. Through the visual language of pre-industrial and industrial architecture + technology, the installation explores the impossibility of technological solutions to climate change alongside notions of power and accountability. Together, these sculptural works suggest absurd systems and tools that incorporate the phenomenological debris of our constructed environment, scientific instruments and communication, as well as the aesthetics of DIY and institutional architectures. The relationships between materials and forms set up a multiplicity of thematic blurs that bounce between works and reflect upon the inseparable relationships that characterize ecological communities.

Meredith Emery is an interdisciplinary artist born in North Carolina, and is currently a second year MFA Candidate at the University of Georgia. She received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has exhibited regionally in the southeastern US. She has been a resident at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and a student at the John C. Campbell Folk School, as well as Penland School of Craft.

Gallery
Suite Gallery
Exhibition Duration
September 16, 2022 - October 14, 2022