
Informed by her own ongoing interdisciplinary studies, including inquiry into material science, ecology and the Anthropocene, and questions of how and where we detect “intelligence,” magnetic instinct, Larner’s ninth exhibition with Regen Projects, presents more than ten new wall-based ceramic works installed to surround Rubber Divider, 1989. Distinguished by the unique physical rules that govern its transition from soft to fragile to almost indestructible, Larner centers clay in part because of its apparent self-determination, a kind of material agency and chemical intelligence distinct from our own. The dialogue between these new works and Larner’s more historic work sounds the interplay between support and surface, effect and infrastructure that has often animated her practice, underscoring how our observed experience of the world derives from the underlying principles that govern its order.
"Rubber Divider," 1989, Liz Larner. Torch-cut steel and pure gum rubber sheeting. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. © Liz Larner.