through June 22nd 2013
Steven Claydon dramatizes and interrogates the ways in which objects have been described, venerated, understood and misunderstood throughout the course of civilization. This process involves a wide range of social, historical, economic, and literary factors, and is intended to differentiate an object's social or anthropocentric 'agency' from its innate, 'thingly' materiality. In Claydon's sculptures, objects are not seen as the antitheses of living things, but as entities that differ from the living by a difference of a degree, possessed of their own 'animism' and with their own capacity for will, hubris, and desire.
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