A More Perfect Circle @ KODA House on Governors Island

The exhibition, as part of programming on Governors Island is an intimate iteration of Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle, 2024, originally an outdoors installation by the artist. The research-based commission that informed this project is inspired by the single-use coffee cup, a ubiquitous object that brings into focus people’s daily experience of interacting with trash. This project connects our personal encounters with disposable objects to the wider systems that fill our lives with waste.

 The installation at the KODA House kitchen showcases glazed ceramics, preparatory sketches and other related pieces. The handmade, intentional, and individualized quality of each unit contrasts with the mass-manufactured coffee cup that is a kind of visual blueprint for the work. On view is also a selection of pieces from recent exhibits and bodies of work that continue threads of inquiry into single use culture, the omnipresence of plastic remnants in our daily lives and their relationships with other materials and objects in our living spaces and our refuse.

Photos by Argenis Apolinario