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Peter Salera

MFA Textiles

Updated: July 28th

[ 01 ] Excavationist setup comprised of a Planar Object Holder, Looped Vessel, Orange Nutriment, Planar Nutriment, Concave Receptacle with Nutriments, and Flexible Containment Vessel. Objects dated to 2067.

[ 02 ] Excavationist setup, shown here in exhibition view.

[ 03 ] Object-oriented Transcendentalist setup comprised of a series of multi-material releasements, including Detritus Releasement, Topographical Releasement, Vase Releasement, and Garment Releasement.

[ 04 ] Detail image of the Detritus Releasement. Composition made from linen, gathered receipts, and cotton embroidery stitching.

[ 05 ] Detail image of the Detritus Releasement, with topography stitching.

[ 06 ] Detail image of the Planar Object Holder. Comprised of electronic waste including AC adapters, MacBook charging cables, iPhone charging cords, and tri-color AV adapter cords.

[ 07 ] Full image of the Planar Object Holder, dated to 2067.

[ 08 ] Body Holster, comprised of 16 and 18 AWG plastic-coated copper speaker wire knitted and wrapped around a aluminum frame. Dated to 2067.

[ 09 ] Concave Receptacle filled with shredded green nutriments

[ 010 ] Chained Orange Nutriment, made from a chain-looped extension cord.

[ 011 ] Planar Nutriment, comprised of 16AWG plastic-coated copper speaker wire.

[ 012 ] Flexible Containment Vessel, shown here in action. Made of excavated 16AWG plastic-coated copper speaker wire.

[ 013 ] Bodily Covering for Somatic Releasement. Bodysuit shown here on modern model demonstrating how it was worn. Comprised of cotton and cashmere, programmed and knitted using an electronic knitting machine. Assembled by hand.

[ 014 ] Detail of the torso of the Bodily Covering for Somatic Releasement.

[ 015 ] Close up of Topographical Releasement. Made of wool and knitted using a Shima Seiki electronic knitting machine using a topography map and numbers denoting personal information.

[ THESIS ]

“a bowl of spinach, an orange, and two slices of bread” imagines a post-capitalist, post-Anthropocene world through the symbology of a personal allegory. Double-jumping in time, the project presents the imagined future as the past, contextualizing the series of objects as part of a museum exhibition in an even more distant future.

After a generalized societal collapse brought about by the climate crisis in the early 2050’s, the emergent world was populated by a civilization governed by Renunciationist ideology that mandated the full renouncing of negative human impact on the planet. Renunciationists were split into two distinct ideological sects: Excavationists, and Object-oriented Transcendentalists. Excavationists adhere to anti-extractive principles of making and building by constructing spaces entirely from the electronic waste that accumulated in mass quantities during the Anthropocene. Object-oriented Transcendentalists believe in ritual practices of memorial-making designed to untether the body from the markers of state-imposed identity, uploading the self into an immaterial consciousness. Excavationist artifacts are presented in an imagined domestic space, while those from the Object-oriented Transcendentalists are presented as a site of memorial for an uploaded being. Both sets of objects are contained within the context of an imagined museum exhibition that explores this period in future-history.

[ ADDITIONAL FILES ]

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[ BIO ]

Peter Salera is an emergent artist and designer whose multidisciplinary practice spans the fields of fashion, speculative design, textiles, and photography. Born in New York in 1996 and raised in rural New Hampshire, his work is heavily influenced by an upbringing spent working on a farm and a personal philosophy rooted in the New England Transcendentalist tradition. His methods of making include the traditional textile techniques of knitting and weaving, with a primary focus on materialities rooted in detritus and remainder. His work is contextualized within distant imagined futures, but is grounded in criticism of capitalism and contemporary design practice that is made legible through objects and accompanying written narratives.

[ CONNECT ]

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