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Desire Paths
Material Girls

May 29 - July 31, 2021

A site-responsive, outdoor installation pairing custom benches with sculptures, sounds, and text to create a meandering path within the landscape of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. Craving touch and intimacy, Desire Paths attends to the tactile and topographical body of the landscape. Lengths of brightly colored ropes weave through the park, tracing a simple line drawing across lush green fauna and inviting visitors to mirror, or playfully subvert, its direction. Planted along this route are an edition of six custom benches, acting as islands, nodes, or way stations— individual stars within a larger constellation.



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Navigation and wayfinding are necessarily contextual - one’s position can only be defined in relation to other objects and environmental cues. Accordingly, the works in this exhibition are repositories for sensory information distilled from the environment of the park. Perhaps in reaction to the all-digital regime of the pandemic, these sculptures reference decidedly more ancient technologies along with the classical natural elements that were thought to animate them - sun, wind, earth, water, and aether. Cameron’s sundials track the movement of the sun’s path across adorned surfaces. Rachael’s softly wavy, porous umbrella translates changing light into a shady caress. Hilliary’s sail-like sunshade reflects brightness, while allowing itself to be whipped into motion by the prevailing wind. Claire’s anthropomorphic windsock turns a business suit into conduit for the whims of the breeze. Gracelee’s ear-shaped well listens attentively only to collect the morning dew. Devra’s memorial bench provides a place in the aether to absorb the feelings and contemplate intangibility. An accompanying audio piece, made in collaboration with musician Ben Seretan, offers brief portals to new places and marks the passage of time with swells of sound, allowing the viewer an alternate method to orient themselves in time, as well as space.

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In proximity to each bench, visitors will find a small mirror engraved with an enigmatic symbol. These plaques tie the artworks to words and images found in a correlating zine, co-authored by the collective.

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Zine for Desire Paths

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Zine detail


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Memorial Bench for Devra Freelander with excerpt from her Arctic Circle Journal, 2017

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Press for Desire Paths:

Dallas Morning News (Danielle Avram)
Patron Magazine (Kit Freeman)
Texas Talks Art

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Containing vessels, Rachel Starbuck (2021)

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Detail Containing vessels, Rachel Starbuck (2021)

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Detail Containing vessels, Rachel Starbuck (2021)

Detail Boyfriend 01 (Trade Winds), Claire Lachow (2021)

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Boyfriend 01 (Trade Winds), Claire Lachow (2021)

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Detail Boyfriend 01 (Trade Winds), Claire Lachow (2021)

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Install, Cameron Cameron (2021)

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This hasn’t happened yet but give it time ----!!, Cameron Cameron (2021)

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Detail Fox Caught, Cameron Cameron (2021)

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Detail Icarus, Hilliary Gabryel (2021)

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Install Icarus, Hilliary Gabryel (2021)

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Detail Icarus, Hilliary Gabryel (2021)

Otic Torsion, Gracelee Lawrence (2021)

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Somatic Torsion, Gracelee Lawrence (2021)

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Detail Somatic Torsion, Gracelee Lawrence (2021)

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Material Girls are a non-hierachical, feminist collective from NY, Austin, and LA. Core members include Cameron Cameron, Claire Lachow, Devra Freelander, Gracelee Lawrence, Rachael Starbuck, and Hilliary Gabryel.

Texas Talks Art

Material Girls: Star Trek

As part of their opening for Desire Paths at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX; Material Girls screened an edit of their favorite moments of sculptural, material and emotional intrigue from Star Trek, a series deeply invested in exploring the intricacies and intimacies of bodies moving through space.

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The end of the trail