Andrew Ross's 'Chassis' at Clima Gallery, Milan

Andrew Ross (b. 1989, Miami; lives in New York) presents his solo exhibition 'Chassis' at Clima Gallery in Milan. The title borrows from the term for the internal exoskeleton that structures automobiles. Ross, attracted to the idea of shaping a self-supporting external surface, establishes a direct process between formation and self-production, working directly in the gallery and covering four solid forms with thermoformed and press-formed styrene sheets. The exhibition emerges from emptiness, using polymers typical of modeling, as a suspended dialogue among four sculptures that reproduce, in 1:1 scale, a potentiated simulacrum (as in 'The Medium' in the first room) or a prosthesis guarding last full imprints left by humans. The spectacularization of white, the flexions of surfaces conformed to memory, across the sculptures, gives the impression of multiple interconnected figures awaiting awareness of their duality triggered by transactional limits.