Post Scarcity SculpturE

Post Scarcity Sculpture at FR MoCA gathers four artists—Alex Tum, Karyn Nakamura, Serena Chang, and Hanna Umin—whose practices operate as Futique Agents, working in the field of Art with material residue and technological detritus in a post-prophetic tense. Post Scarcity, the conceptual ground of the exhibition, names a politics that imagines an end to artificial scarcity enforced by capital, envisioning a condition where technological development and collective organization liberate human and non-human energies from cycles of deprivation.  

In this exhibition, sculpture is redefined through soldered brass, cast plaster, resin, foam, computational circuits, video systems, and found refuse. The show centers a biomechanical site where the synaptic future and the industrial past converge. These objects function as future antiques, coded with fragments of war material, biological trace, and machinic residue, at once evidentiary and prophetic. Post Scarcity Sculpture frames these works as Futique Agents of a holistic informational shift, revealing how surplus, waste, and neural invention together constitute the emergent matter of social and aesthetic revolution.

In addition to the exhibition, FR MoCA is launching a new Sound Artist-in-Residence program. During the inaugural residency, M. Azevedo will install site-specific, durational sound works in the newly constructed Sound Cell behind the museum’s main exhibition space. Further details will be announced soon. 

This exhibition is graciously supported by Fabric Arts Festival.

Text by Harry Gould Harvey IV

Press: Boston Art Review