Birch Trunk and Steel Shelving, Paris Gallery Installation

5 October 2017 · Paris

A bare birch trunk runs the full height of a large dark steel shelving grid — floor to bare branches — piercing every horizontal shelf as it climbs. The pale bark and the matte black steel don't compromise with each other; one grows, the other was built, and the sculpture holds both conditions in plain view. It's a simple material contrast that earns its scale: the organic vertical against the industrial grid says everything the artist needed to say without a word of wall text.