Statement

Sweezie produces ceramic and sculptural works to investigate themes of labor, fragility, memory, globalization, and material history. Their practice is heavily informed by historical research and is often inspired by revolutionary events and personal ancestral histories. Correlations between human intervention and industrial production are the crux of their work. These correlations broaden realities of understanding around our physical world, product origins, and our relationship to industrialized material. Sweezie’s forms are posed as recognizable and minimal to reflect their origins while simultaneously contrasting themselves through alternative mediums and processes. Sweezie utilizes molded and cast forms frequently to question values tied to reproduction and authorship within industry. Material value is also central to their practice. Sweezie employs an assortment of mediums such as porcelain, latex, bronze, rubber, rice paper, cast plastic, and gold gilding. Through these materials, they aspire to reposition suppressed relational histories within global and institutional perceptions.