Elaine Cameron-Weir

strings that show the wind


September 8 - October 27, 2019

press release

Canadian Art
Artforum
Frieze
Art Basel
Art Observed
The Brooklyn Rail
Art in America
The New York Times

installation view, strings that show the wind, JTT, New York
installation view, strings that show the wind, JTT, New York
installation view, strings that show the wind, JTT, New York
it thought you were someone else it thought you were me bounded by strings in the distorted phases of a topological superfluid a mysterious density half-speed vortices and long walls, 2019
concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon
45.5 x 32 x 31 in
115.5 x 81.5 x 78.5 cm
it thought you were someone else it thought you were me bounded by strings in the distorted phases of a topological superfluid a mysterious density half-speed vortices and long walls, 2019 (detail)
concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon
45.5 x 32 x 31 in
115.5 x 81.5 x 78.5 cm
it thought you were someone else it thought you were me bounded by strings in the distorted phases of a topological superfluid a mysterious density half-speed vortices and long walls, 2019 (detail)
concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon
45.5 x 32 x 31 in
115.5 x 81.5 x 78.5 cm
at the end of the line an echo sliding downtown the mercurial reflective pool of a familiar voice and me a person it never made real in the mirrors of my own halls, 2019
concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon
45 x 29.5 x 31 in
113.5 x 75 x 78.5 cm
at the end of the line an echo sliding downtown the mercurial reflective pool of a familiar voice and me a person it never made real in the mirrors of my own halls, 2019 (detail)
concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon
45 x 29.5 x 31 in
113.5 x 75 x 78.5 cm
at the end of the line an echo sliding downtown the mercurial reflective pool of a familiar voice and me a person it never made real in the mirrors of my own halls, 2019 (detail)
concrete, liquid candles, glass, stainless steel, leather, neon
45 x 29.5 x 31 in
113.5 x 75 x 78.5 cm
installation view, strings that show the wind, JTT, New York
but it knew her still somehow by the strings that show the wind impoverished things decorate these tunnels yet it dreams of wires always in a scatter radar memoir, 2019 (left)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
the face on the tip of the tongue its hum next to me underground the wind comes and is seen heralded by strings these devices of measure tracks and life activities in the fossil record symmetries to the physical world, 2019 (right)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
but it knew her still somehow by the strings that show the wind impoverished things decorate these tunnels yet it dreams of wires always in a scatter radar memoir, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
but it knew her still somehow by the strings that show the wind impoverished things decorate these tunnels yet it dreams of wires always in a scatter radar memoir, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
but it knew her still somehow by the strings that show the wind impoverished things decorate these tunnels yet it dreams of wires always in a scatter radar memoir, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
the face on the tip of the tongue its hum next to me underground the wind comes and is seen heralded by strings these devices of measure tracks and life activities in the fossil record symmetries to the physical world, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
the face on the tip of the tongue its hum next to me underground the wind comes and is seen heralded by strings these devices of measure tracks and life activities in the fossil record symmetries to the physical world, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, leather, fluorite
dimensions variable
installation view, strings that show the wind, JTT, New York
installation view, strings that show the wind, JTT, New York
we all go to work by proxy but it dreams of wires and it was setting the sun it thought it had lost everything but then it found you instead and woke up laughing, 2019
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm
we all go to work by proxy but it dreams of wires and it was setting the sun it thought it had lost everything but then it found you instead and woke up laughing, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm
we all go to work by proxy but it dreams of wires and it was setting the sun it thought it had lost everything but then it found you instead and woke up laughing, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm
the witnesses turned away he signed the moon out of bed and fact folded back yielding a crumpled up smile a discarded face finally familiar it was setting the sun it was waiting for you, 2019
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm
the witnesses turned away he signed the moon out of bed and fact folded back yielding a crumpled up smile a discarded face finally familiar it was setting the sun it was waiting for you, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm
the witnesses turned away he signed the moon out of bed and fact folded back yielding a crumpled up smile a discarded face finally familiar it was setting the sun it was waiting for you, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm
the witnesses turned away he signed the moon out of bed and fact folded back yielding a crumpled up smile a discarded face finally familiar it was setting the sun it was waiting for you, 2019 (detail)
stainless steel, pewter, rawhide, neon, whip antenna, chandelier parts, liquid candle, leather
72 x 35.5 x 10 in
183 x 90 x 25.5 cm