Ari Zuaro

From the traces of things both built and found, my work points to how we might reconfigure or string together new ways of being from that which has been undervalued or disregarded. On my walks through Philadelphia’s Chinatown, a place I sought out as a site of connection, I began to consider the definition of reflection: the bouncing back of a body without absorption. While I cruise the streets noticing the debris, brick, rubble and skyscrapers I wonder how we might locate the edges of a site? Through an “an-architectural” lens my work leans into the nature of collapse. I seek to capture the urgency–and reframe the messiness–of existing in a place. Collapse is also a means to engage in trans-ness. By this, I refer not simply to gender identity but instead to situating in between, and existing as possibility. It may be that at any given time we are only glimpsing each other in the various states of our collective becoming.
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