Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
Jesse Stecklow
December 4, 2024 – December 8, 2024
1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139
At this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, Sweetwater will present a solo booth of new works by Jesse Stecklow (*1993, US). Stecklow’s practice is rooted in data collection. Each sculpture is part of a network, a link of a recursive chain in which each work references a past work or foretells a future work. Elements brought together from diverse sources repeat, shift forms, and reveal unexpected connections; themes from earlier projects are reinvented and recast in different constellations with each following presentation.
Agriculture plays an important role in works produced for the fair. Stecklow continues his use of corn-related products (including paraphernalia of seed-producer DeKalb and its former parent company Monsanto) and newly incorporates toluene (a byproduct of crude oil), a compound detected in an air sample of Sweetwater during his 2023 solo exhibition.
Stecklow has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, in 2023 and 2019. His exhibition Terminal took place at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna in 2022, and was accompanied by a catalogue. Stecklow received a degree in Media Arts from UCLA, Los Angeles, in 2014. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Jesse Stecklow
Untitled (65°), 2024
DeKalb Genetics Corporation outdoor thermometer, packaging, carbograph 5 air samplers
13 x 13 1/2 x 4 1/4 in
33 x 34.3 x 10.8 cm
Jesse Stecklow
Untitled (65°), 2024 (detail)
From Ear to Ear, 2024
Corn lucite paperweights, Transducer listening devices,
paper, MDF
13 x 18 x 4 1/2 in
33 x 45.7 x 11.4 cm
From Ear to Ear, 2024 (detail)
Untitled (6:05:16), 2024
Clock parts, chrome-painted straw, carbograph 5 air samplers
4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in
11.4 x 11.4 x 8.9 cm
Untitled (6:05:16), 2024 (side view)
Database (Toluene), 2024
Crude oil lucite paperweights, silkscreen on paper,
hanger studs, glass, MDF
13 x 18 x 8 1/2 in
33 x 45.7 x 21.6 cm
Database (Toluene), 2024 (detail)
Boxed Breath, 2024
Corian, balloons
13 x 13 x 2 in
33 x 33 x 5.1 cm
Boxed Breath, 2024 (side view)
Under Lock and Key, 2024
Terminal exhibition catalogue, Monsanto facility padlock and keys, steel padlock keepers, vellum, paper, MDF
13 x 18 x 3 in
33 x 45.7 x 7.6 cm
Under Lock and Key, 2024 (detail)
Installation documentation by Gabriele Abbruzze