STATEMENT OF WORK

Levi Robb’s work explores the role of material perception and identity within social and cultural contexts. There is a common theme within his practice that originates from the history of human interaction with formal objects and the cultural attachment of landscape to artifact – domestication of land over time, depletion of wildness, and the formal objectivity left behind through the process of human living are underlying concepts found throughout his work. The work invites the viewer to consider the reciprocal relationship of human, object and landscape — what society and culture hold to be sacred, what is considered commodity, and the impact of time. His practice investigates how we attach memory to object, landscape and architecture – how we search for joy and fulfillment within the confines of these day-to-day items – and how their applied labels shift and evolve over time, in turn, creating an implied material hierarchy through the embedded human histories left behind. The formal qualities of the work visually breakdown, abstract and reconstruct the discarded forms – often transposing cast objects and material found on the landscape by reassembling the castings as archetypal sculpture.