OCAD U CAREER LAUNCHERS INITIATIVE
ARTIST PROJECT 2025 CAREER LAUNCHER RECIPIENT
Presented by OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers and Artist Project as part of the Career Launchers Program.
Caro Simon, the recipient of the Artist Project 2025 Career Launcher, will present Residuum or Something that remains continues to exist when other things no longer do at this year’s fair.
Oscillating between speculative and function-less entities, the system of concrete and wooden sculptures figure anti-memorials to non-human entities. Inspired by an underground water structure found in cities (hidden catch-basins), the installation reevaluates the potentiality of disregarded urban infrastructure to become more-than-material aesthetic entities. As mnemonic entities, they allude to the vital but neglected components of our underground water systems and of our shared collective material memory in urban environments. Residuum critically reassesses the postindustrial built environment and the dehumanized, distanced modes of interaction between bodies and utilitarian urban infrastructure.
