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As part of the USF Contemporary Art Museum exhibition The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility, USFCAM presented the public installation and performance of Muro, a 6.5-foot-high by 26-foot-long wall constructed and then deconstructed using 1,080 unique clay brick timbers. This installation led to the Graphicstudio collaboration Another Brick in the Wall, expanding upon Sodi’s ongoing interest in organic processes beyond the artist’s control. Bosco selected multiple bricks from the Muroproject and collaborated with Graphicstudio artisans to apply a glossy, crackled white glaze, reminiscent of his white paintings, freezing them in time. Sodi states that “even if they are different now, they are still another brick in the wall”. Each brick is presented in a custom Japanese style box constructed from Douglas Fir with a continuous wrap around grain for display.
Another Brick in the Wall is an example of Sodi’s continued interest in wabi-sabi, the traditional Japanese aesthetic which embraces beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” in nature.
