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