Everyone has a relationship with trash," says 35-year-old New York artist Abigail DeVille, whose sculpture St. Louis Blues currently occupies an entire room of its own at CAM as part of its Urban Planning group exhibition. "This is how I look at it: objects are passive witnesses of history, or records of the present historical moment — I mean, the things that they have in the Natural History Museum are people's trash from a couple thousand years ago!" she continues, explaining her fixation with finding and incorporating discarded objects and other urban detritus into her works.…
Everyone has a relationship with trash," says 35-year-old New York artist Abigail DeVille, whose sculpture St. Louis Blues currently occupies an entire room of its own at CAM as part of its Urban Planning group exhibition. "This is how I look at it: objects are passive witnesses of history, or records of the present historical moment — I mean, the things that they have in the Natural History Museum are people's trash from a couple thousand years ago!" she continues, explaining her fixation with finding and incorporating discarded objects and other urban detritus into her works.…