Obliteration, Creation

Written By Tesha Malott

Ohni Blu
Obliteration, Creation
23 May - 22 June, 2019

Installation view. Video of a figure floating in water, on a monitor. White sculpture of a figure's chest, on a textured ball and plinth with debris below. A pile of white ceramic bones in the center of the gallery.

Ohni Blu, Obliteration, Creation, installation view, 2019. Photography Zan Wimberley.

Artist Statement

Momentary obliterations, meditations and creations of a body. These practices play an important part in Ohni’s life and function as a survival strategy as a chronically ill and disabled transgender person. These works explore ritual practices that create a collapsing of stable categories into a production of new truths.

White ceramic sculpture of a figure's chest and shoulders, balancing on a chiselled, textured ball and plinth. Dust and debris on the floor around the sculpture. In the center of the gallery, a pile of many white ceramic femur bones.

Ohni Blu, Obliteration, Creation, installation view, 2019. Photography Zan Wimberley.

Close up, a white plaster or ceramic statue of a nude figures chest and shoulder balancing on top of a chiselled, textured ball and base plinth.

Ohni Blu, Obliteration, Creation, installation view, 2019. Photography Zan Wimberley.

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