ancient://technology
48 Hester St, NYC 8/7-8/28 W-Sa 12-6pm
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5x5 Collective //est 5.5.25
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Limuli

Limuli artwork 1

About the Work

Limuli embodies an ancient animist technology rooted in a reciprocal relationship with land. In pre-christian Britain, these spirals, known as 'corn dollies', were traditionally woven with the last sheaves of grain from the harvest to provide shelter to the "grain spirit" over winter. Hung in doorways and houses, they were believed to offer protection and luck. They were returned to the field in Spring to begin the next cycle. Here the structure is woven in aluminium and coated in a skin of bacterial cellulose. Inside nestle three Atlantic horseshoe crabs. This piece is part of a body of work exploring speculative myths and alternative cosmologies, offering fresh and remembered ways of understanding the entangled relationships between humans, the land, and the unknown.

Price: 2200

About the Artist: Romilly Rinck

Romilly Rinck headshot 1

Romilly Rinck is a British visual artist, material researcher, and educator based in New York, NY. Mainly working in sculpture and installation, she explores embodied materialities through traditional textile techniques and experimental material processes. Romilly received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023) and her BA in History of Art and Material Studies from University College London (2015). Working at the intersection of textiles, ecology, and heritage crafts, my process is led by material and site-based research. As an animist, I listen to stories of places and materials. Exploring healthier alternatives to petrochemical-based materials, such as root systems and bacterial cellulose, I move beyond binary distinctions between organic and inorganic, towards an ethics and agency of materials, their life cycles, and their human and nonhuman stories. Taking a decentered approach as a curator of material processes, I set up experiments where different agents interact. I see my pieces as characters in a mythology of materials. The outcomes are syncretic vessels for speculative myths and alternative cosmologies, offering fresh and remembered ways of understanding the entangled relationships between humans, the land, and the unknown.

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