February 17 – 21
Reception: Friday, February 21, 5-7pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
The objects by Carly “Car” Riegger ask what disabled interpretations of material can look like. They pose a perspective of the body pertaining to disabled life while addressing the emotional materiality that becomes complex. Their pieces blend the emotional, sensorial, material, and structural intimacy of being chronically ill, glimpses and moments into their resting space. Bodies drip, bend, fold, wrinkle, degrade, grow. The work expands how we understand the material of the body and what happens to that material and identity in moments of strife and transition, key to the disabled existence. As a sculptor, Riegger is reimagining crip materiality, coined by Jessica A. Cooley, asking what a material’s limits are to convey disabled experiences with the body, particularly one that is chronically ill.