Using mineral pigments and simulating instances of erosion as part of an organic casting process, Sarah Elise Hall pictures possible, future artefacts or fossilized traces of our consumer present using discarded plastics as vessels for her marble forms. Hall aims to re-envision these banal, mass-produced industrial forms as elements for the monumental, arranging like forms in vertiginous stacks or configuring materially dense pairs and groupings. It is not only conceivable but inevitable that disposable, non-biodegradable plastics will embed over time to become strange geological forms emblematic of industrial mass production, making forever plastics a disturbing legacy of our time. With her multiple casts from a range of salvaged forms, Hall resolves to make every attempt to prolong utility.

SARAH ELISE HALL earned her BFA from OCAD University (2002) and her MFA from New York Academy of Art (2009). She has shown broadly in the US, having been based in Brooklyn, NY for some years before returning to Canada. Recent exhibitions include: Redoubled, Christie Contemporary, 2020, Composite, Gray Contemporary, Houston, 2017; Material Evidence, Los Ojos Gallery, Brooklyn. Corporate collections include the HBC Global Art Collection, New York and the Schlumberger Collection, Houston.