| I am interested in collecting and collapsing the signals and objects of exclusion, separation and leisure. While restrictive images typically define and reinforce spaces of privilege, through the creation of sites of control, this work examines the breakdown of such over-determinations. I am particularly interested in suggesting speculative configurations, which imagine new social possibilities or frustrate present political realities. |  |
Weston Teruya
I am interested in collecting and collapsing the signals and objects of exclusion, separation and leisure. While restrictive images typically define and reinforce spaces of privilege, through the creation of sites of control, this work examines the breakdown of such over-determinations. I am particularly interested in suggesting speculative configurations, which imagine new social possibilities or frustrate present political realities.
My current work springs from an examination of, and interaction with, a particular carceral space and its surrounding golf course in Los Angeles. However, these drawings are not an attempt to document the reality of this conjoined location, but to imagine otherwise: to suggest sites in the act of emerging from the detritus of that geographic and relational place. These are spaces and structures, built from objects, that still carry with them the traces of their original social purpose, but that have been adapted to more ambiguous contexts, allowing the potential for agency or critique.
