Fessure

2022

Site-specific installation: egyptian paste, tinted plexiglass, lighting

Form Re-Formed, Stand4 Gallery, NYC

<Will our earthly existence be just a filament of waste in the archeological strata? We are continually looking to the past to understand who we are, unearthing and collecting objects to fill in the stories of our history. This makes the poignant placement of Tesauro’s Fessure in the Stand4 Gallery space an appropriate marker to the end of the exhibition. Placed between two walls, the¨fissure¨, to find a ceramic sculpture reminiscent of an ancient Egyptian scarab, a beetle that lays its eggs in its excrement and is associated with the divine manifestation of the early morning sun. Like the scarab we are in a continual state of creation, but unlike the scarab, the waste of our commercial, consumptive ways is not life giving.>

-Jeannine Bardo, excerpt from catalog for

Form Re-Formed