Elliot Wright

ARTIST STATEMENT 

Photograph explores the tension between the creative and destructive components of the photographic image. To create the piece a silicone mold was made of a Polaroid Swinger Model 20. The camera was then promptly destroyed and broken into small pieces, all of which were subsequently embedded within the silicone mold using clear resin. The resulting copy of this camera contains the original; simultaneously, the copy’s existence is contingent on the original’s destruction. Photography similarly attempts to capture something momentary by preserving it, but in the process erodes its singularity.

BIO

Elliot Wright (they/he) is a multimedia artist hailing from Northern Colorado. As a senior at NYU Gallatin, they’re studying the history, theory, and practice of visual art, but are particularly interested in exploring conceptual sculpture and its many contemporary manifestations. Their current interdisciplinary art practice is focused on exploring the tension between the physical and ephemeral by way of “the document.”