BIO
Delia Pelli-Walbert (b. 1999, New York, NY) lives and works between New York, NY, and Chicago, IL. Her sculptural practice cultivates a relationship between past and present, drawing from familial and imagined histories of land and material. She received a BFA with Honors distinction from New York University and has exhibited at various galleries including 81 Leonard Gallery, New York; 80 WSE, New York; ArtsClub DTLA, Los Angeles; and Monira Gallery at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City.
STATEMENT
I explore how structures, bodies, and lives can be broken apart and reassembled using the material language of ceramic. Envisioning the movement of information within a scaffold that has become contorted and obscured, I question what new stories can be told when fragments of information collide. I alternately place and destroy structure and image in a process of haphazard organization, negotiating claustrophobic channels of information. I probe the relationship between architecture and systems of communication, referenced in sculptural forms that appear as contorted grids compulsively stacked into precarious towers. In the fractalized space between clay facades, narratives may transgress boundaries to suggest strange associations, anticipating potential futures.