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“Nearer Nature invites the viewer to consider their relationship with nature. Originally, the artist installed the video in various public sites across the state of Oregon, to encourage community engagement. Now, the video is presented in the gallery’s Lower East Side space, to give visitors a moment of respite.”
Now on view at Cristin Tierney Gallery through April 3, 2021 is Malia Jensen’s solo exhibition Nearer Nature, the culmination of Jensen’s two-year Nearer Nature Project. Featuring glass casts of salt links partially degraded by wild animals and an epic six-hour long video installation taken from wildlife surveillance cameras that followed the salt links, the exhibition has the feel of a nature documentary by way of Bruce Nauman. In this exhibition trailer, we learn about Jensen’s process for creating the works and the larger project.
From Cristin Tierney Gallery:
By commemorating the weathered human forms in glass, Jensen is creating both ode and cautionary tale, finding beauty in our vulnerability. The 6-hour video Worth Your Salt gives us a window into the ordinary life of the natural world and an immersive opportunity for contemplation. In the artist’s words, “Patterns emerge: changing light, growing antlers, pairings, births, behaviors shifting with the seasons. The mundane becomes beautiful, the unfamiliar becomes intimate, underscoring our interconnections and the myriad ways we walk on shared ground.”
Malia Jensen’s (b. 1966, Honolulu, HI) diverse studio practice is informed by an interest in natural cycles and the fragility of the constructed systems we use to navigate the world.
