The Impact of a Freezer

Brianna Leatherbury received a contribution for the development of a new work that departs from the meaning and function of a cooling system. The cooling system is one of many agents of capitalist growth. Because of them, we now move food across entire continents; work in climate controlled office spaces; and sustain embryos, blood, and other bodily elements in suspended states for potential future use. It is this suspended state, that stretches the time between life and death, that Brianna will explore. In this project, Brianna will work towards making a functional cooling system using copper sculptures as it working parts.

Brianna's recent work begins with research that is both personal and structural. They create abstract systems that investigate the material effects of economic forces through individual relationships. Working with the materials of intimacy, industry, and finance, they aim to infiltrate our surrounding infrastructures, briefly interrupting systemic divisions through conversations that engage with difference. Through a combination of sculpture, performance, and documentation, their testimonial works seek new opportunities of relation.