Ishmael Randell-Weeks' work on view at Carpenter Center, Harvard University

Installation view of Signal and Strata. Courtesy of carpenter center, photo by julia featheringill

Nunu Fine Art is honored to announce and congratulate artist Ishmael Randall-Weeks on his participation in the group exhibition Signal and Strata, which opened on February 5 at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. 

Signal and Strata brings together the practices of three Peruvian artists — Elena Damiani, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Ishmael Randall-Weeks. Through works that are materially rich, architecturally inflected, and frequently referencing pre-colonial forms, the three artists explore the complex and intertwined relationships between land, history, and resource extraction. By placing their practices in dialogue, the exhibition further addresses issues of environmental change and cultural displacement, inviting viewers to consider how systems of power and belief are constructed, eroded, and reimagined within and through material. 

Randall-Weeks is represented in the exhibition by key works including Círculo concreto and Código Atemporal #83. Composed of found and reclaimed materials such as copper, cement, brick, rubber, and soil, these works are reconstituted through a highly labor-intensive process into hybrid architectural forms. Through this practice, the artist gives embodied form to cycles of production and decay, while offering a critical reflection on narratives of progress, urbanization, global supply chains, and material culture.