Evisceration Veneration
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Completed
2021
Medium
Steel, rebar, site of evisceration, charred chicken bones, silicone
Dimensions
20” x 8” x 56”
Description
Sabrina Haertig Gonzalez is a New York-based artist and a recent BFA graduate of Cornell University. Her practice of augmenting and collapsing the materiality and notions of objects, commodities, and bodies looks to reclaim agency against exploitative contemporary phenomena and their accompanying histories. She believes in the unique ability and responsibility of sculpture-making to implicate and heighten one’s awareness of their positionality within inequitable extractive economies by inducing a sensitivity to exchange and disruption to the built environment's authority. What violence and inequities reveal themselves when our accustomed interactions with objecthood are challenged? The material conditions of our lives should relentlessly remind us of whom and what is being sacrificed in the maintenance of all which we have gained unjustly. “Evisceration Veneration” is part of Gonzalez’s “Sabor a Carne” series exhibited in Spring 2021. “Sabor a Carne” features a series of works navigating the relationship of Latinx identity to poultry processing in the United States. The series was a culmination of dedicated research on how the Latinx body is taxed through forced migration, dangerous labor, and the consumption of American chicken, on which the poultry industry relies. Chicken, an inseparable staple to Latinx cuisine, is equally inseparable from the unethical, violent modes in which it is farmed and processed in mass. Thus, the Neo-colonial industry forces the Latinx community to cannibalize itself. From adopting pre-Columbian aesthetics to designing imagined future architectures, “Sabor a Carne” posits when meat became flesh.
About this Artist
Sabrina Haertig Gonzalez
Sabrina Haertig Gonzalez is a New York-based artist and a recent BFA graduate of Cornell University. Her practice of augmenting and collapsing the materiality and notions of objects, commodities, and bodies looks to reclaim agency against exploitative contemporary phenomena and their accompanying histories. She believes in the unique ability and responsibility of sculpture-making to implicate and heighten one’s awareness of their positionality within inequitable extractive economies by inducing a sensitivity to exchange and disruption to the built environment’s authority. Sabrina recently graduated from Cornell University as the Merrill Presidential Scholar for the School of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning. In addition, she was awarded the Faculty Medal of Honor and Degree Marshall status. During her time at Cornell, she was a Presidential Rawlings scholar with a research focus on decolonial artistic confrontation and resistance, to which she has produced three solo exhibitions. Her practice heavily relies on a synthesis of…
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