Projects
The work explores the collusion between nature and science. Based on nature's sculptured forms Campbell induces new definitions through fragmented objects, bending forms, concepts and connotations of the everyday natural systems.
Her visit to Columbia University’s genetics lab helped her expand her ongoing investigation into the role of engineering our food and the global food crisis.
"I am always looking for something more to be said, something that points to dialogue and questions where we are."
See the Sculpture Magazine December 2017 article on Naomi Campbell; Engineering Transparency
Below are ten selected projects based on her experiential reflections. They explore current global conditions affecting the body and its environment ranging from climate change, water sustainability, food science and their politics, to a virtual diaspora of “home” in an avatar-like changing world. For further ongoing projects, please contact the artist.
Installation exploring the global food crisis. Corn kernels are translated into patterns of communication for the blind through braille. They wrap around the room, listing major global seed banks and their locations in the world.
Investigating multiple aspects of genetic engineering through the use of a variety of materials from printed X-rays to glass to rice and corn kernels.
Glass, wood, fabric, paint, metal, plastic, light and electrical circuitry A chandelier of small metal and large 50 caliber glass bullets....
The glass bullet contain the ashes of incense as the final by-product of life setting alight and freeing the spiritual body to become a Tabula Rasa once more...
Wall mounted litebox
Printed photography and X-ray on Plexiglas, metal, plastic, lighting
Homeless myths and Indigo cries black explores the world of science and art through X-rays - a tribute to Japan and its power plant workers....
Welded steel twigs line up along a bar to create an XY grid representing a graph. This graph indicates on average how much water a person uses during the course of a normal day.
Investigates the combined worlds of the virtual and the real from the point of view of technology, social media and gaming. Suddenly, we are finding these realities assimilating onto one platform that is both real and imagined through the auspices of the computer....
Silent Harvest was a series of nocturnal landscapes curated by Juan Puntes and Susanne Karbin at White Box Projects. This body of work included 26 small-scale oil paintings, 22 on canvas and board, and 4 on paper, a medium reflecting the artist’s preoccupation with the fragility of life.