Patricia Ayres

Patricia Ayres

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  • SculptureCenter 2025
  • SITE Santa Fe International 2025
  • though poppies grow, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium, 2025
  • Unrequited Remnants, Tank, Shanghai, 2024
  • Articles of the Estranged Matthew Brown Gallery 2024
  • Critical Mass, Mendes Wood DM, New York City 2023
  • Rubell Museum, Miami 2022
  • Bound, Matthew Brown Gallery, 2021
  • Infanta with Tiny Bell, Galeria Wschód, 2025
  • Mendes Wood DM Gallery Esfíngico Frontal
  • This Basic Asymmetry, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, 2022
  • Analog Diary, Some Kind of Monster Roster, Group Exhibition, July 30 - October 9, 2022
  • de la Cruz Collection
  • It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown Gallery, 2020
  • entering a song, Koenig & Clinton, 2019
  • Frieze Art Fair New York, Mendes Wood DM, 2023
  • Felix Art Fair, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Matthew Brown Gallery, 2022
  • Liste Art Fair Basel (solo), Switzerland Fragment Gallery, September 2021
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition, December 2018
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Untitled (portal)
2018

One of the ways that the U.S. controls the physical bodies of its citizens is by incarcerating masses of its population which is reflected by the high rate of individuals in prisons. The state has the desire to gain control of the physical body in order to gain control over the mind. Considering this, I have created sculptures that are segregated, solitary cells which I imagine a body could fit into.They are sealed off structures, albeit for the embedded grills which are punctured, manipulated confessional booth screens. These grills create boundaries between sinner and priest, prisoner and guard, and the concept of heaven and hell. At the same time, they become breathing holes for a mythical underworld or a passageway.