Melissa Weber

The display and reframing of objects and materials is central to my art practice. I am intrigued by the mutability of things, the shifting vocabulary of materials, and the creation of unexpected juxtapositions between the mundane and precious. By creating abstract compositions and materialized drawings from porcelain and basic materials I imbue the everyday with newfound value and reveal a reorganization of the world around me. While many contemporary artists concentrate on the throwaway aspect of industrial materials, I choose to investigate the potential of what these materials could become.

Scraps of metal, coils of wire, lengths of felt or paper packing material share the aesthetic simplicity and reductive quality of unglazed porcelain and speak to the essential, straightforward nature of both materials. Slight interventions render the familiar enigmatic or unrecognizable. My work is driven by a curiosity of the unknown and it evolves over time through experimentation, serendipitous discoveries, and a process of editing and re-editing. In an increasingly tumultuous and chaotic world, this intuitive and emotional process of reordering and arranging objects serves as a grounding mechanism and enables me to process and express my own inner turmoil and emotion.