Solar Noon is pleased to present 

FIELD | SHADE, an informal exhibition by Supermrin featuring a series of sculptures that explore the potential of working with and through the relationship between landscape and architecture in the age of extinction. The array of forms resists categorization in either direction, occupying the grid of the built environment while forming their own emergent clusters that fractalize like leaves as if peering through a lush forest at dusk. Each individual work represents one node in Supermrin’s expansive sculptural practice titled FIELD, which utilizes a grass-based bioplastic material invented by the artist in 2020. The material is simultaneously the tool, medium, and message upon which our bewildering present can be processed and considered, offering the decolonial raw matter to form new connections like the undergrowth of roots thriving in the dirt. 

Throughout the exhibition, the individual works take many forms: from a large-scale sculpture in response to the legacy of Modernism as evoked in Auguste Rodin’s figurative bronzes titled FIELD [family secrets], to a series of two delicate half-dome woven works fastened to the wall by steel rods titled FIELD [untitled], and a pointed arched window, FIELD [birch] that simultaneously evokes both Islamic and gothic architecture; a biologic portal with light leaking through from interconnected histories and temporalities. The smallest piece in the exhibition, FIELD [mother] is perhaps the most enigmatic, blurring the line between sculpture and artifact – a fertility totem or insignia for the metaphysical force within FIELD. 

In each piece, Supermrin showcases the multifarious potential of her material - stretched over branches and adorned with indigo and turmeric. However meticulously the sculptures have been crafted, with each meeting of branch and blade mapped, the material has its own agenda that unfolds within the exhibition. FIELD | SHADE represents a relinquishing of the desire to control, a submission to the haunting totality of nature. The works are both deity and dust; at once resonant, and yet inert. They are the speculative rewilded future, the fleeting moment of pause under the blistering summer sun.