Amanda Ross-Ho’s sculpture, installation, and public works aim to pay reverence to transitory intersections between time, encounter and form. Her artistic process originates in close observation and intuition instigated by an archival compulsion. Instinctually recognising potential in objects, media and settings beyond the confines of their quotidian forms, she develops intimacy with artefacts that populate commonplace encounters and elevates them into monuments and speculative ecologies. Using strategies of forensics (analysis, anatomy) and theatre (exaggeration, hyperbole) she dissects and reassigns value to transient matter. Her chronic use of scale-shifting stems from a deeply inscribed photographic impulse, extending the habits of pictorial manipulation and archival documentation to embodied sculptural forms. Her work reshapes a conventional long view, inscribing and preserving the complex collateral of time into alternative archives of lasting memory.
Amanda Ross-Ho (b. 1975, Chicago, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.