From the press release: "In Bamboo Mother, Ben Sloat explores the fusion of the visual and the physical, where imagery is not just seen but felt, an immersive presence in space. Here, bamboo becomes an intervention: a structural force that transforms, enhances, and obscures, extending even to the architectural scale.
Sloat’s practice is deeply rooted in the vernacular, drawing on the fluid intersections of culture and identity. His works weave hybrid social meanings, reflecting his multiracial Taiwanese-American heritage while engaging with broader iconographies of belonging and transformation. Moving across mediums and forms, he expands the notion of the “photographic” beyond the image itself—embracing materiality, iconography, and cultural language as active, shifting components of meaning.
With a voice that moves between the intimately personal and the widely collective, Sloat’s work invites us to reconsider how images inhabit the world, not just as representations, but as tangible, evolving presences."
