Malia Jensen, Worth Your Salt, 2020, HD video, color, sound, 360 minutes.
Artforum reviews Malia Jensen’s solo exhibition Nearer Nature at
Cristin Tierney Gallery.
The show featured five kiln-cast glass sculptures, four perched on reclaimed wooden blocks and one on a concrete block, set atop white pedestals. Each form represented a part of the body—a breast, hands, the stomach (interpreted here as stacks of doughnuts), a foot, and a Brancusi-inspired head. The objects are actually fabricated replicas of carved salt licks the artist placed in various habitats across Oregon as offerings or lures for the fauna—such as deer, elk, birds, and cows—that became unwitting collaborators in her project. - Charity Coleman
May 3, 2021