Cameron Clayborn's 'Private Property' exhibition at Morán Morán explores domestic wounds through biomorphic sculptures

Cameron Clayborn's solo exhibition 'Private Property' at Morán Morán in Los Angeles ran from July 29 to August 25, 2023. The show featured four sculptures from the artist's 'Lullaby' series alongside the 'Reliquary' series of canvas reliefs and the sculpture group 'family portrait (with you, against you, against you)'. Lullaby #4 presents a childlike figure coated in paraffin wax, plaster, and acrylic with a lumpy umbilical cord trailing from its navel. Lullaby #2 resembles a gnarled leg with a waxy yellow patch, while Lullaby #1 stands two meters tall with armature penetrating its thigh. The Reliquary works contain photo transfers of residential facades with shut blinds and upside-down windows. According to gallery statements, the exhibition title references a house Clayborn's grandparents once occupied in the American South. The sculptures evoke themes of domestic violence, family secrets, and bodily fragmentation through biomorphic forms suggesting wounds, gestation, and birth. Viewers experience a discomforting sense of voyeurism as the works function simultaneously as ciphers, confessions, and indictments.