Exhibited at DESIGN MIAMI.LA 2024 Constructed through intentional, ritualistically inflected fabrication processes, Samuel Ross’ bodies of work traverse a nuanced psycho-socio-geographic terrain. Located in three centuries of the Black experience, the collective and individual territories navigated are ones forged by international trade and commodification and now underscored by the pervasiveness of post-industrialized Western culture. From Ross’ RUPTURE series, Foreign body of chalk and ironshifts to grapple with concepts of connection, severance, incongruity, and abstraction. Obtuse marble forms, connoting the monolith, are propped on seemingly too slender geometries of powder-coated steel, finished in Ross’ signature Safety Orange. Operating as a moniker, the works exemplify historic absurdities that reflect homogenization as a normative when contextualizing the diaspora’s being. Materials: Marble, powder-coated steel
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