Artworks

Catharine Clark Gallery featured a special Media Room presentation of Malia Jensen’s video Worth Your Salt (2019) from her Nearer Nature project in conjunction with Laurel Roth Hope’s solo exhibition Accelerating Impact in 2022. For this multi-year endeavor, Jensen first carved a series of six sculptures from livestock salt-licks; a hand holding a plum, a head resembling Brancusi’s Sleeping Muse, a breast, a dozen donuts (standing in for the stomach) and a foot. Jensen then installed the sculptures in wild spaces across the state of Oregon, using motion-triggered cameras to document animal interactions and the surrounding landscape over the span of a year. The resulting six-hour video work, edited from thousands of 30-second clips into a surveillance style grid, humorously and poetically offers us insights into the rhythms of the natural world and our place within it.