https://adrianpepe.com Adrian Pepe Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:56:43 +0000 https://adrianpepe.com en https://adrianpepe.com/A-Shroud-is-a-Cloth Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:56:43 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/A-Shroud-is-a-Cloth A SHROUD IS A CLOTH. A shroud obscures, but it also protects what is underneath. A shroud cradles that which it covers at a time of transition, a transmutation from one state to another.&nbsp; Above all, a shroud is indexical: it says that something once came from the land, was severed from it, and will now be returned to the land. The human that is made of clay and mud returns to clay and mud; ashes to ashes, dust to dust. A textile is in itself an expression of the landscape it comes from. It has a terroir that is reflected in its texture: the diameter of each strand and its crimp, which in turn affects its softness or coarseness and insulating properties. Among animal fibres, wool is especially remarkable for its ability to absorb moisture without getting wet; put another way, it is uniquely able to not just reflect its terroir, but carry its atmosphere with it. And while we tend to think of terroir as climate, soil composition, and the particular grasses that an animal might eat, we should extend our understanding to other elements, namely the accumulation of culture and history that is as much a part of any terrain as its mineral content. As the animal grazes, its hair, fur, or wool also accumulates its surrounding landscape, picking up burrs which have co-evolved to have a commensalistic relationship with the animal that carries and deposits these seeds elsewhere, ensuring biodiversity. Humans, in turn, have manipulated these animal fibres as clothing and as shelter, resulting in morphological changes over time as the body evolves to adapt to new climates. In his textile-based practice, Adrian Pepe primarily works with wool from Awassi sheep, an ancient fat-tailed breed that has been reared in its native Mesopotamia and Levant for over 5000 years. It is the ur-sheep of Abrahamic religions and ritualistic practices, slaughtered to celebrate births or honour guests, and sacrificed on holy days and holidays, with their livers used for divination. As such, its wool grows from a symbolically fertile ground, laden with the weight of mythology, civilisational history, and creationist narratives. Drawing parallels to the Mayan notion of the world existing on the back of a turtle, Pepe’s work is grounded in the recognition that a whole ecosystem exists on the backs of animals too. He describes the process of turning a fleece—a shorn biomass of wool, parasites, insects and plant matter—into material, hair into wool, as an extractive process of removing the landscape from it. More recently, he has begun to separate out and classify these elements to create a kind of visual taxonomy of the wool’s terroir. Using animal collagen and medical grade preservatives, these bits of landscape are tightly bound together into matted expressions of a territory LANDSCAPE MATTER &nbsp;that are hung on the gallery wall, or looser, fossilised amberlike tiles VEGETABLE MATTER that are displayed on x-ray lightboxes, suggesting a primordial soup of plant matter floating in animal matter. Also on view is a video from the cataloguing process, which navigates the debris using a powerful microscopic lens, moving ever downward to produce a visceral, endoscopic exploration.Taken together, they create a certain forensic aesthetic—the modern-day organ divination—but what is being dissected here is not human flesh so much as the landscape itself. In summer 2024, Pepe wrapped the Villa des Palmes, a heritage building severely damaged in the Beirut port explosion, in handmade felted wool. Unlike the hermetic seal of a coffin, a shroud is a semi-permeable membrane that allows for the passage of air, moisture, microbes, and the forces of time and here, too, the covering is stretched thin like yuba. In using a material long used to dress wounds, the intervention drew parallels between urban and fleshy bodies, and their different processes of treatment and repair. When we heal a broken structure, we try to restore it to a state of former glory. When we renovate the human body, however, the most we can do is stem the tide of decay. Draped over a building, this single, multi-panelled textile operates like the green or brown safety mesh over scaffolding we might be more used to seeing but unlike the fixity of this netting, the shroud billows and sighs in the breeze, revealing the fragility and vulnerability of the decimated form it covers.&nbsp; At Nika, this monumental 200 square meter textile is hung in the anterior space, greeting visitors as they enter the space to form the heart of the show. Removed from the building-as-corpse, it invokes the living bodies that it once originated from, with each panel using approximately the amount of wool produced by a single sheep. Yet installed in a white cube, the shroud doesn’t suggest a return to the earth, to the landscape, so much as the cold clinicality of the mortuary. Moving from the shroud towards the&nbsp; shroud,main space then, creates an unsettling play on scale as the visitor moves from product to representations of the landscape it is extracted from. As for the absent body that the shroud intimates? It has already made its way upstairs, in the form of Shedding (2023), a life sized cast of the artist’s body, laid out on a morguelike slab. The piece is the aftermath—an afterbirth as well as an shroud—of a 12-hour durational performance in which performers clad in disposable blue hazmat suits wet and felted wool directly onto Pepe’s body in an exploration of funerary rites and a millenia-long history ovine-human symbiosis. This shedded snakeskin analogue reverberates across floors in the jute netting that used to sag and fall off a building in Pepe’s Beirut neighbourhood like scabs. They are sutured together with felted wool in a series of works URBAN SHROUDS that further collapses the distance between shroud and safety textiles, and between the urban and human bodies. The transformative process of healing is further viscerally&nbsp; intimated in works EX VOTOS that references childhood memories of Pepe’s father’s orthopedic clinic, as well as a Costa Rican pilgrimage tradition. Both are ritualised sites of profound faith and a very human yearning for repair, whether in the sympathetic magic of a basilica Chamber of Miracles, or the performed rationality of modern medicine. At the end of the pilgrimage, devotees make small golden and silver medallions depicting ailing body parts which are hung on a particular wall as a way to ask for improved health or another boon, or mounted in gratitude for healing, or another benediction received. But here, human body parts are interspersed with animal ones, suggesting a kind of hybrid interspecies structuring.nThere is an understanding here that healing must necessarily be collective—we can’t get better alone—but also, fascinatingly, might require the built environment too. As a whole, the show suggests the locavorist maxim that what grows together grows together. The “three sisters” of corn, beans, and squash, for example, or tomatoes, eggplants and zucchinis. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c20c729ece0b88d4de627bfa28469c685f0e6a5920248780db70f0466e0402ab/Adrian-Pepe_A-Shroud-as-a-Cloth--2025_Exhibition-view_-Photo-by-Liana-Mukhamedzianova_Courtesy-of-NIKA-Project-Space-021.jpg" data-mid="238644803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/c20c729ece0b88d4de627bfa28469c685f0e6a5920248780db70f0466e0402ab/Adrian-Pepe_A-Shroud-as-a-Cloth--2025_Exhibition-view_-Photo-by-Liana-Mukhamedzianova_Courtesy-of-NIKA-Project-Space-021.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; https://adrianpepe.com/Entangled-Matters-2-0 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:25:50 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/Entangled-Matters-2-0 ENTANGLED MATTERS 2.0 is a public installation and exhibition developed around Villa des Palmes, a 19th-century building in Beirut damaged by the 2020 port explosion. Its façade was wrapped in a large hand-felted textile made from lightly felted wool. The covering recalls the temporary fabrics and protective membranes used during architectural repair and rehabilitation, while the felt forms a skin over the damaged structure, drawing a relation between architectural and bodily processes of repair. Inside, the installation continued through wall-based textiles, inflated soft sculptures, and performance. Realized with the support of the UNESCO BERYT Emergency Grant and the Robert A. 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18:07:37 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/Gilded-Fleece THE GILDED FLEECE&nbsp; is composed of twelve tanned Awassi sheep skins cut into rectilinear sections and joined through an industrial accordion stitch. The exposed flesh side is coated with refined rabbit collagen and covered with 24-karat gold leaf, applied using brushes made from horse and squirrel hair. The work binds multiple animal bodies into a single surface. Sheep, rabbit, horse and squirrel are brought into direct material relation, their bodies appearing variously as skin, adhesive, tool and support. What reads at first as a unified field is therefore assembled through the remains of several species. Its gold ground recalls illuminated manuscripts made on parchment, while its rectilinear scale and frontal presentation also evoke the blank billboard: a surface prepared for inscription, image, value or command. These references place the work between devotional image, manuscript surface and contemporary urban display. The title draws from the myth of the Golden Fleece and its pursuit of an object invested with extraordinary value. Gold, associated with permanence, is fixed to skin, a material marked by decay, binding the corruptible to the incorruptible. Commissioned by Qatar Museums for Design Doha, M7, Doha, Qatar, 2024. Collection of Qatar Museums. Final image by Edmund Summer <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55223812763575212bae3cd8109ed584146f73ec553b1fbfd23870d778a22f0b/gilded1-final.jpg" data-mid="216840292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55223812763575212bae3cd8109ed584146f73ec553b1fbfd23870d778a22f0b/gilded1-final.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b0e06606205515702426c9d41e8c8e68f18b0ae16e25218513b316a385149ec/gilded1-final.gif" data-mid="216840252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b0e06606205515702426c9d41e8c8e68f18b0ae16e25218513b316a385149ec/gilded1-final.gif" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9767c1d79102203ed1f82e34f0c9a634b1aba795181b3c56764c1b3ebfe67d6/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_11.jpg" data-mid="216840553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9767c1d79102203ed1f82e34f0c9a634b1aba795181b3c56764c1b3ebfe67d6/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_11.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ece1ca33e71fd7e5ec7c91f97804eacc8c6216a505dc4fad39cfa4f4a0250909/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_1.jpg" data-mid="216840461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ece1ca33e71fd7e5ec7c91f97804eacc8c6216a505dc4fad39cfa4f4a0250909/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_1.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e63c3fefd9b887126d9b52eef207802acbc9b4b3ceafb7504a1a17c7e820dd97/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_16.jpg" data-mid="216840464" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e63c3fefd9b887126d9b52eef207802acbc9b4b3ceafb7504a1a17c7e820dd97/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_16.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e4b214d8aab79f81a3efdfb83a03ab4d61e54ad407ddd71c3bba79d36470779/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_10.jpg" data-mid="216840586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e4b214d8aab79f81a3efdfb83a03ab4d61e54ad407ddd71c3bba79d36470779/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_10.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1065" width_o="1000" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3159fc525daa557e7ad4aed27786f1c7bbb23491afa55dd9d3fc70567348d443/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_4.jpg" data-mid="216840587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3159fc525daa557e7ad4aed27786f1c7bbb23491afa55dd9d3fc70567348d443/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_4.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67ee38859b566b216e8bb9b09318e3fd5f8def703c187e8aac957e5ce5dd6d0e/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_17.jpg" data-mid="216841023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67ee38859b566b216e8bb9b09318e3fd5f8def703c187e8aac957e5ce5dd6d0e/adrianpepe_gilded_qatar_17.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="772" width_o="1000" height_o="772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ead57aa9410e911b506e3fc870e149473ff5566d195db68bf3599aa14e9efa4c/ADN-D3-Edmund-Sumner-Credit-REQUIRED---043.jpg" data-mid="216840822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ead57aa9410e911b506e3fc870e149473ff5566d195db68bf3599aa14e9efa4c/ADN-D3-Edmund-Sumner-Credit-REQUIRED---043.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; https://adrianpepe.com/Utility-of-Being Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:27:53 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/Utility-of-Being UTILITY OF BEING is a site-specific installation conceived from the gathered pelts of the fat-tailed Awassi sheep—a natural byproduct of the slaughtering process in the region. Staged within the historic Old Slaughterhouse of the Emirate of Sharjah, the installation comprises of pneumatic tubular forms echoing the visceral lines of animal entrails. The continuously inflated bodies penetrate and traverse the space while suspended from the hooks and rails originally used for handling animal carcasses. The work serves as a metaphor for understanding the tension that lies at the edge of survival and commerce, challenging notions of human-animal relationality, the alchemy of material processes, and the fragility of biological existence. Images by&nbsp;Danko Stjepanovic coutersy of Sharjah Architecture Triennial,&nbsp; Alessandro Fagioli, and Omar Al Gurg Disclaimer: The animals whose skins are presented in this installation were not killed for the production of this work. The collected skins are stitched together and then inflated using internal air blowers; no plastic or PVC casing was used in the installation. As a closure, we held a&nbsp; ceremonial bagpipe procession at the Old Slaughterhouse of Sharjah, commemorating the fat-tailed Awassi sheep. The bagpipe, or ḥabbān (هبان), traditionally crafted from a singular animal skin, becomes a lyrical vessel, carrying a rich history rooted in the region. A musical spell from the world of shepherds, the piper grants a voice to the animal while manipulating its aerated body. Against the backdrop of the UTILITY OF BEING installation, featuring inflated forms made of sheepskins, a metaphor unfolds—an interplay of artifact and ritual—binding humans and animals in a dialectical interconnectedness. <img width="750" height="500" width_o="750" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0373b258d0134e4dbe09712fc161d0f5380e288633845b140b12f9b4ce5df841/ADRIAN-PEPE_AlessandroFagioli_1-web.jpg" data-mid="200382685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/0373b258d0134e4dbe09712fc161d0f5380e288633845b140b12f9b4ce5df841/ADRIAN-PEPE_AlessandroFagioli_1-web.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="1000" width_o="750" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10161be1c2a06c209a53b4e797ee59ea132f6a6b87381fe2b41ad4b072f0d0ec/ADRIAN-PEPE_DankoStjepanovic_coutersy-Sharjah-Architecture-Triennial_5-web.jpg" data-mid="200379568" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7040009fcb790f9ce21f4cd0e5d4ebb3de634b46a9b49ba7bb45f2825cbe1cfe/ADRIAN-PEPE_sharjah_11-web.jpg" data-mid="216841299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7040009fcb790f9ce21f4cd0e5d4ebb3de634b46a9b49ba7bb45f2825cbe1cfe/ADRIAN-PEPE_sharjah_11-web.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23723c928bc55804d9746e80ac5c71bd793390df4d171ea272584fdc30f6dbed/ADRIAN-PEPE_sharjah_6-web.jpg" data-mid="216841247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23723c928bc55804d9746e80ac5c71bd793390df4d171ea272584fdc30f6dbed/ADRIAN-PEPE_sharjah_6-web.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1000" height="707" width_o="1000" height_o="707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b24ff5b70e6911d306328739f22cf713e2582ae456ffc0de2d33e3393c77ed2d/ADRIAN-PEPE_sharjah_7-web.jpg" data-mid="216841262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b24ff5b70e6911d306328739f22cf713e2582ae456ffc0de2d33e3393c77ed2d/ADRIAN-PEPE_sharjah_7-web.jpg" /> https://adrianpepe.com/Shedding Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:37:43 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/Shedding SHEDDING is a life-sized cast of the artist’s body made from felted sheep wool through a participatory process. The wool is laid directly onto the body, wetted, compressed, and felted by the hands of others until it forms a thin shell that can be removed and suspended as an effigy. Drawing on funerary forms and processes of moulting, the work considers the body as a surface that can be impressed, shed, and remade. The human figure is formed through animal fiber, bringing human and animal bodies into direct material relation. The cast is displayed alongside a collection of natural and discarded remains gathered in Saudi Arabia, from snake skins to plastic bags, extending the idea of shedding across biological and synthetic matter. 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Upon reaching the ground, they awaken and cry “wak wak,” their first sound. Circulating across Arabic, Persian, Indian and later European geographies, Waq-Waq belongs to a shifting field of folklore, travel accounts shaped by the routes of exchange linking the Indian Ocean and Silk Road worlds. Its tree unsettles distinctions between vegetal, animal and human life. The work carries this instability into its material construction. Embroidery is embedded and partially trapped within felt, bringing together textile languages often separated by hierarchies of refinement, labor and value. The precision of the stitched image is absorbed into the density of wool, where line, fiber and surface begin to lose their independence. Narrative and material become entangled in the same way as the myth itself, blurring distinctions between body and plant, image and substance, ornament and structure. <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78b91df4a6886b784319d54c01c0551e7b611817d3f76e82a668cfbc6fdf71e7/adrianpepe_wakwak_4.jpg" data-mid="175402969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78b91df4a6886b784319d54c01c0551e7b611817d3f76e82a668cfbc6fdf71e7/adrianpepe_wakwak_4.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0503259312186b85af3a8b33e64a4486a942293a53f754ba4833f33998f3a988/adrianpepe_wakwak_2.jpg" data-mid="175402971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0503259312186b85af3a8b33e64a4486a942293a53f754ba4833f33998f3a988/adrianpepe_wakwak_2.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d9df36c10e14a40a27f81551695341ac2e87b09283e106bc0f8288890039bb9/adrianpepe_wakwak_9.jpg" data-mid="175402962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d9df36c10e14a40a27f81551695341ac2e87b09283e106bc0f8288890039bb9/adrianpepe_wakwak_9.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b692d045e665dc7282d16e704ae9c4e353c80f00facf537a3a6a3af2af491a0/adrianpepe_wakwak_6.jpg" data-mid="175402967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b692d045e665dc7282d16e704ae9c4e353c80f00facf537a3a6a3af2af491a0/adrianpepe_wakwak_6.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a5d080a821dbb5134c2240168202118d444be762c74aad52b495530f7e95a44/adrianpepe_wakwak_7.jpg" data-mid="175402966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a5d080a821dbb5134c2240168202118d444be762c74aad52b495530f7e95a44/adrianpepe_wakwak_7.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1285" width_o="1000" height_o="1285" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1139b43bc75ff9cb9e454d64da6a29360c8886cca1d32a723d768e51538e93c0/adrianpepe_wakwak_14.jpg" data-mid="175407355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1139b43bc75ff9cb9e454d64da6a29360c8886cca1d32a723d768e51538e93c0/adrianpepe_wakwak_14.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1285" width_o="1000" height_o="1285" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3813aa7a7d5d3510360927cb00cb49b3bfb9ed3de19481edc4e7ab3220b60965/adrianpepe_wakwak_10.jpg" data-mid="175404162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3813aa7a7d5d3510360927cb00cb49b3bfb9ed3de19481edc4e7ab3220b60965/adrianpepe_wakwak_10.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1285" width_o="1000" height_o="1285" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29570e209d573088e90a25dd21e430418ad7accb26de8f4e721bf29872f2ed04/adrianpepe_wakwak_1.jpg" data-mid="175407390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29570e209d573088e90a25dd21e430418ad7accb26de8f4e721bf29872f2ed04/adrianpepe_wakwak_1.jpg" /> <img width="705" height="1000" width_o="705" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20257cee30f6650bf7c6220280773f76b8a227e33ef2b093d32e14f2acc42f06/adrianpepe_wakwak_slide4.jpg" data-mid="175409792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/705/i/20257cee30f6650bf7c6220280773f76b8a227e33ef2b093d32e14f2acc42f06/adrianpepe_wakwak_slide4.jpg" /> <img width="705" height="1000" width_o="705" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8c900022a3d9e7361916c71471ac346dc1364de387166dfcd9ba2fbf0603322/adrianpepe_wakwak_slide5.jpg" data-mid="175409795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/705/i/b8c900022a3d9e7361916c71471ac346dc1364de387166dfcd9ba2fbf0603322/adrianpepe_wakwak_slide5.jpg" /> <img width="705" height="1000" width_o="705" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc52537e9ac5aca334f452d503d49306b9329b2fd1263b918f92731655612775/adrianpepe_wakwak_slide6.jpg" data-mid="175409798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/705/i/dc52537e9ac5aca334f452d503d49306b9329b2fd1263b918f92731655612775/adrianpepe_wakwak_slide6.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; https://adrianpepe.com/The-First-Red Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:33:00 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/The-First-Red SKY CULT is a series of felted wool works colored with red and yellow ochre. The pigment is worked directly into the wool, which is then rolled and beaten until the fibers bind into a single textile. Ochre is among the earliest pigments used by humans to represent bodies and the surrounding world. It also continues to be used by shepherds to mark their flocks, placing color directly onto the animal body as a form of identification. Across the series, a recurring circular form remains unstable in its interpretation: it may suggest a celestial body, a ripening yolk, a polka dot, or a marking on the body of a sheep. Moving between image-making and the domesticated body, the same form shifts across cosmic, biological, and pastoral scales and systems of meaning. <img width="750" height="863" width_o="750" height_o="863" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd0f00ef0e5d9bdf67c001d3c7c593c2cecccaaa9972909c84cf3c1725cb0654/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_6.jpg" data-mid="143492841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/bd0f00ef0e5d9bdf67c001d3c7c593c2cecccaaa9972909c84cf3c1725cb0654/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_6.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cb6f29e46c56ab6f183cea3fc9617202a2cc388758f0350910e6d9f0fd820e9/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_16.gif" data-mid="143496894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cb6f29e46c56ab6f183cea3fc9617202a2cc388758f0350910e6d9f0fd820e9/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_16.gif" /> <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0ce746b2789177c76ca8b864fbf52f68969065f922ebc2ae3a80f6a80cd9c2f/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_20.jpg" data-mid="156245212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0ce746b2789177c76ca8b864fbf52f68969065f922ebc2ae3a80f6a80cd9c2f/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_20.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0df39ccbe1271229d18302900ed751dd9a79ffff4a4ea99a52db48249706c194/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_28.jpg" data-mid="156245201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0df39ccbe1271229d18302900ed751dd9a79ffff4a4ea99a52db48249706c194/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_28.jpg" /> <img width="997" height="994" width_o="997" height_o="994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cae437834e15124864c51e9b107b81156df47256fdef3ce39d0d4ccf9ca27f5/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_29.jpg" data-mid="156246751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/997/i/7cae437834e15124864c51e9b107b81156df47256fdef3ce39d0d4ccf9ca27f5/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_29.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03c418ae07a9c6950a94fc55fd9a3be8f50080bce9f662c9cf41b4ad4980a86c/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_24.jpg" data-mid="156245208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03c418ae07a9c6950a94fc55fd9a3be8f50080bce9f662c9cf41b4ad4980a86c/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_24.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1001" width_o="1000" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1549cc78450a60e8a6ebf669fec3f30d6d160f3c48444e00e3c2a04d97571bf/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_26.jpg" data-mid="156245205" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1549cc78450a60e8a6ebf669fec3f30d6d160f3c48444e00e3c2a04d97571bf/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_26.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1004" width_o="1000" height_o="1004" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea123cf99e392c2b4e49210b65cb67cf99015a50b59226f0099d063970d21125/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_27.jpg" data-mid="156245204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea123cf99e392c2b4e49210b65cb67cf99015a50b59226f0099d063970d21125/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_27.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecf0cef5c35537c48ce81960e69884d2465bd1a1fa903035caacd71d01d71f1a/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_44.jpg" data-mid="143485066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecf0cef5c35537c48ce81960e69884d2465bd1a1fa903035caacd71d01d71f1a/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_44.jpg" /> <img width="750" height="890" width_o="750" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56125caba281423782e5880ae419e6a30fd1ca973db81c5d9386a67be394d3f9/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_14.jpg" data-mid="143494178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/56125caba281423782e5880ae419e6a30fd1ca973db81c5d9386a67be394d3f9/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_14.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6194dae34e6f8e700b7b2ec11336051d5dac24e1935bda76884b9262ef68ff4a/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_23.jpg" data-mid="156245209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6194dae34e6f8e700b7b2ec11336051d5dac24e1935bda76884b9262ef68ff4a/adrianpepe_ochre_pigment_23.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1353" width_o="1000" height_o="1353" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7c38d1673ad2a185484d98110d75e5344738d23f3e67ebaa65357506a6c0272/adrianpepe_skymap_2022_6.jpg" data-mid="156259662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7c38d1673ad2a185484d98110d75e5344738d23f3e67ebaa65357506a6c0272/adrianpepe_skymap_2022_6.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; https://adrianpepe.com/Entangled-Matters Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:01:49 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/Entangled-Matters ENTANGLED MATTERS is a body of work developed through Awassi wool, a sheep breed native to the Levant and shaped by thousands of years of domestication. Through felting, spinning, braiding, dyeing, and embroidery, the fiber is transformed into textile works that retain traces of animal body, hand, and process. The work considers felt as a material produced through compression and entanglement: loose fibers become a single surface through friction, moisture, and pressure. This physical binding becomes a way of examining the porous relations between human and animal bodies, and the histories carried within materials shaped through prolonged coexistence. <img width="1000" height="583" width_o="1000" height_o="583" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e0773eb0760d033a6153700384b5eb2f5e4e41b435a422c2eb58f45afcbe46d/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_23.jpg" data-mid="118780166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e0773eb0760d033a6153700384b5eb2f5e4e41b435a422c2eb58f45afcbe46d/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_23.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8783af56200c4479534592f9e04e62ff7111c91ea44231b8bfd15ae49a2ea4fe/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_26.gif" data-mid="118791185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8783af56200c4479534592f9e04e62ff7111c91ea44231b8bfd15ae49a2ea4fe/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_26.gif" /> <img width="1072" height="805" width_o="1072" height_o="805" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08edab9ff7225b82ea0b9c9828fabe41e592409c4ec58185acd37ee6f33c63de/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_16.jpg" data-mid="118780164" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08edab9ff7225b82ea0b9c9828fabe41e592409c4ec58185acd37ee6f33c63de/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_16.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="691" width_o="1000" height_o="691" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7bded6d82f5f6c2d8e79e71e51c5b9dcf0b8a089f21212561d47fc537065899/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_18.jpg" data-mid="118780165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7bded6d82f5f6c2d8e79e71e51c5b9dcf0b8a089f21212561d47fc537065899/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_18.jpg" /> &nbsp; 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the size and composition of each work develop from the particular shape and density of the individual skin. The works emerged through a chain of relations linking shepherding, wool, hairdressing, migration and handwork. Braiding, a social and bodily practice associated with human hair, is transferred onto the pelt of a close domestic relative. The skins were worked in collaboration with Tsedel Mamo Gebr, an Ethiopian hair stylist and salon owner based in Beirut, whose knowledge of braiding became part of the making process. <img width="1000" height="778" width_o="1000" height_o="778" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c48178648f3923d7136ed93028db4bfca61bb01108d93c69184c10b8e8ba99e/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_24.jpg" data-mid="118778476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c48178648f3923d7136ed93028db4bfca61bb01108d93c69184c10b8e8ba99e/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_24.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="778" width_o="1000" height_o="778" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ca18a6f7accf8ac075e687ba3a5322cabe058c6e3e3ebda1fd820b8efd4171b/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_25.jpg" data-mid="118778477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ca18a6f7accf8ac075e687ba3a5322cabe058c6e3e3ebda1fd820b8efd4171b/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_25.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1062" width_o="1000" height_o="1062" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f35a8bd9bd196717d692f23ec4c319f19e16453f6090eb371f7114eab87603ef/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_42.jpg" data-mid="120206107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f35a8bd9bd196717d692f23ec4c319f19e16453f6090eb371f7114eab87603ef/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_42.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="786" width_o="1000" height_o="786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05a7c61492c4b1f4f4eac182859c6d783c35eb705afc0a97708bc884c49f6558/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_20.jpg" data-mid="118778474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05a7c61492c4b1f4f4eac182859c6d783c35eb705afc0a97708bc884c49f6558/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_20.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c536ccffc5744e69f1237882d8017e1222f0ab3c7bc5cc6b34d7a2bc1eedc74/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_21.jpg" data-mid="118778475" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c536ccffc5744e69f1237882d8017e1222f0ab3c7bc5cc6b34d7a2bc1eedc74/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_21.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1435" width_o="1000" height_o="1435" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/816953ba0c2f2ffd5c43da6f50103fefd9f85b0d83351a46ba3c1af0705b770a/adrianpepe_braided-2021.jpg" data-mid="156263438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/816953ba0c2f2ffd5c43da6f50103fefd9f85b0d83351a46ba3c1af0705b770a/adrianpepe_braided-2021.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a941640a9a67d3088cfc4314d63dfed845d09585f459b53297673137edd94740/braided3.1.jpg" data-mid="118870132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a941640a9a67d3088cfc4314d63dfed845d09585f459b53297673137edd94740/braided3.1.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1502" width_o="1000" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/349a067cfca2e2a119a6d909ee2583d845eeaab8146f5bec176eba036cc79e59/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_54.jpg" data-mid="120227371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/349a067cfca2e2a119a6d909ee2583d845eeaab8146f5bec176eba036cc79e59/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_54.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1502" width_o="1000" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb1a5d9e39803fe7ec377313ac49b19f1bf7e530af7e918668b01900abfb3d1d/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_52.jpg" data-mid="120227343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb1a5d9e39803fe7ec377313ac49b19f1bf7e530af7e918668b01900abfb3d1d/adrianpepe_wool_leb_2020_52.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/523e179293be58fbabf166106be8e5f96251a2b1670d86ddbb8986e214554695/adrianpepe_cloak_2021.jpg" data-mid="156260300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/523e179293be58fbabf166106be8e5f96251a2b1670d86ddbb8986e214554695/adrianpepe_cloak_2021.jpg" /> https://adrianpepe.com/Hair Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:18:58 +0000 Adrian Pepe https://adrianpepe.com/Hair HAIR serves as a synecdoche for understanding the meaning of self and other, subject and object. The mimetic processes of hair modification separate and connect members of a culture; they are extensions of identity, an amalgamation of inheritance and formulation. The follicle and sebaceous glands generate hair as an inert by-product. It is dead but constantly growing. Once cut, shaved, or waxed from the body, it is disconnected but not entirely indistinct. The common abjection to hair as an autonomous substance stems from an inability to assign ownership and our own personal conceptions of bodily entropy. The processes of changing hair fiber have a long history, presumably beginning with the Egyptian use of synthetic hair extensions and henna to dye greying indications of maturity in the 34th century BCE. Lakota and Navajo children often played with dolls stuffed with chopped hair, and during the Victorian era, hair became a regular medium in producing wall hangings and jewelry. In more unfortunate circumstances, the Nazis used materials of the body, including skin and bones, to construct objects of daily life. The artistic partnership, explores the functionality and representation of human hair by employing collected clippings from the floors of salons and homes. Using a felting technique of parting, rolling, picking, and stitching, the duo produces a matted wool-like fabric, bleached to a yellowish off-white. In the space, the soft, thick textile is used as a conventional bed covering, an outer blanket and underlying layers. The pillows are also formed from the material, filled with loose, unprocessed hair, exposed and spilling out. A presentation of laminated human hair samples and corresponding labels against the gallery wall suggests formal cues of materiality as linked to phenotypical identity. The artists examines processes of union and fusion.&nbsp;The bed and material are an exhibition of the abject but also of sleep and alchemy, of human bonding, the sensual and sexual.&nbsp;It is Duchampian in its staging of a functional reality but with a confounding surrealist undertone. We are connected by the ephemerality of experience, by our ability to grow and the common&nbsp;thread of hair. __________________ Mestizo Revisted is a time based event so your promptness is encouraged if you wish to participate. Any questions about this event can be directed to our curators, Tyler Akers and Gabrielle Buffong. We are looking forward to a weekend of art phenomena and we invite you to lose yourself in this singular experience. 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