TIFFANY SHLAIN

In my work, I explore ideas in feminism, technology, neuroscience, nature, and time through sculptures, lightboxes, photography, and time-based media. These pieces arephysical permutations of themes I’ve investigated for nearly 30 years as a filmmaker and writer. For my tree-ring sculptures that challenge the conventional patriarchal narratives embedded in historical timelines, I begin with deep research, then distill moments that combine the profound, the peculiar, and the perplexing, hand-burning them with pyrography. In all my works I use scale, geometry, and uncovered histories to shift perspective, reveal absurdities, and offer alternative ways of interpreting our past, thinking about the present, and imagining the future.