Mark, SaraNoa

SaraNoa Mark

American

About the Artist

My practice examines traces left by time, in landscapes and in collective memory. I work with enduring materials to explore permanence and erasure, and employ subtractive gestures to archive the presence of absence.

In my sculptures, time is counted slowly, through repeated gestures. These marks accumulate in works that form a physical accounting, providing an alternative means of measuring temporality outside the system of commodified time.

Drawing is at the core of my practice, I view the earth as a drawing, continuously drafted by environmental and human gestures. I seek to enter into dialogue with other carved languages from canyons to cuneiform tablets to sidewalk graffiti – that document an eternal impulse to score stories into place. My aim is to entirely transform my materials by stringently reworking that which already exists, reshaping what is present.

My works are situated in observation and rooted in fieldwork. Intrinsic to my process is the conviction that authentic work is achieved through sustained interaction.

The questions driving my work interrogate personal and cultural investments in turning to materiality as a means of transmitting memory. I interrogate this impossible instinct to preserve and retain intangible experience by transferring onto objects the task of surviving time. Making art is my method of becoming a witness. 

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