Featuring over 25 works from the past decade, Tightrope explores the full breadth of Elias Sime’s practice.
Elias Sime
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Love and Craftsmanship in the Relationship Between Machines and Humanity
A conversation with the artist Elias Sime, whose work interrogating our bond with electronic media is now on view at the Wellin Museum.
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Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire
Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.
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Art That’s Too Lovely to Make Its Politics Convincing
Elias Sime’s work at James Cohan gallery reclaims and transforms e-waste into art. While an act of conscience, I can’t help but think that the work is swamped by its own aesthetics.
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Finding Our Way Amid the Modern Fatalism of Circuit Boards
Elias Sime’s installations at James Cohan Gallery are visually impressive, but more than that, they are brilliant in their capacity to accomplish several things at once.