Zach Hill

Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Artist statement

My sculptures bounce between found and fabricated materials to create human-scale multimedia works of assemblage. This process of assemblage centers misuse and mimesis to reconfigure furniture parts, tripods, cords, and found metal while cast or sculpted appendages and video screens are added in reaction to these modular structures. In these arrangements I combine materials that should never touch but steal a kiss when no one is looking. Formally I reference city infrastructure, the human figure, animality, and science fiction. The typical logic of these forms is skewed and resisted to create works that actively misbehave. Within this intentional misbehavior, these sculptures play with assumptions regarding their material identity and original or imagined utility. Through this queer transmutation, my work presents active devices that perform visible and audible signaling, protective surveillance, and anthropomorphic objecthood.

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