Jessica Segall: A Thirsty Person March 11, 2013

Jessica Segall’s work investigates the link between creativity and survival, focusing on the production of energy in practical and alchemical forms. A Thirsty Person shares new sculpture, drawings and video produced from Segall’s travels to remote places such as the Arctic and Mongolia, and explores themes such as risk, vulnerability and a conscious ecology through the development of off-grid technologies. The labor-intensive and often humorous work necessitates collaboration with video, sound, and costume design, and illustrates the uninhabitable places upon which we all depend for survival.
The exhibit includes a series of graphite abstractions drawn from solar panel cell patterns used by nomads in Mongolia. In these works, Segall captures two simultaneous moments: one in product design that evaporates with the development of nanotechnology, and one in pastoral nomadic culture that is increasingly affected by a growing mining industry and climate change.

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