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CURATORIAL STATEMENT

The stakes of image-making can never be neutral. With ETHICAL WORK Abosch is not interested in revealing how the images are made, but rather considers what they do once they appear. This body of work is focused on the substances and structures through which human life is built and sustained. The materials that enclose, nourish, and protect, yet also deplete, contaminate, and endure beyond us, are placed at the forefront. These works are the result of baiting, coaxing, subverting and massaging the algorithm until materials are reconfigured into forms that hover between prototype and ruin, object and relic, architecture and debris. By leading with these unstable thresholds, the series calls attention to the ways matter itself becomes ethically charged with human intention, cultural bias, and ecological consequence.