…the end and the beginning
2024
https://spencerbrownstonegallery.com/exhibitions/the-end-and-the-beginning
The end is stated first. Like a boulder in front of a cave entrance, a monumental steel slab marks the exit hovering impossibly a few inches above the floor. Further into the space, more steel forms emerge as if unfolding from another and from the space itself. Portions of wall and glass fragment the space again. With rhizomatic wire and metal stems connecting all structural tissue. Slivers of light move throughout the space casting as much shadow as illumination, unsettling one’s sense of arrest. And sounds reverberate throughout.
Drozd’s expansive installation utilizes the very materials that make up and inhabit the space (drywall, metal, light, and sound) to alter, dim, or amplify each component. The walls are raised, ceilings drop to the floor, cables pierce surfaces, and windows are obstructed and relocated. However, within this fractured world, all things touch another, and from that emerges unity as well as a throughline to navigate.
The displacement and mutation of spatial elements is transformative, not only for the structure itself but for the way in which the body moves and experiences it. The space is a body in constant metamorphosis, and the perception of its elements echo within us.
