The Era of Contradiction Materializes in Uncanny Sculptures

A new generation of sculptors embraces paradox — soft forms in hard materials, familiar shapes made strange.


The Era of Contradiction Materializes in Uncanny Sculptures

The exhibition at the Renwick Gallery brings together fifteen artists whose work refuses to settle. A pillow cast in bronze. A cloud carved from marble. A blanket of woven wire mesh that catches light like fabric.

Each piece asks the same question: what happens when a material lies about its own weight?

Beyond Objecthood

The curators have arranged the show not by artist or chronology, but by sensation — softness, tension, collapse. Walking through feels less like visiting a gallery and more like wandering through a dream where everything is almost, but not quite, itself.

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