Artist Statement

This exhibition explores the uneasy relationship between ecological sustainability and the geopolitical forces driving farm production. Cycles of monoculture crop production, where one species is grown/raised in the same location repeatedly, though profitable in the short term, deplete soil nutrients, require the introduction of toxic chemicals and fertilizers that can contaminate water sources, and put at risk food supply chains.

Horochowski’s work exists at the intersection of what is human and what is not. Informed by a life immersed in radically different landscapes — the desolate Argentine fringes of Patagonia’s Atlantic coast where she was raised, and the fertile Midwest woodlands hugging the great lakes — chance encounters with various materials, natural or man-made, often provide a starting point for her works in sculpture, photography and video.

She aspires to “question the sustainability of a consumer society that exacerbates inequality and undermines the environment.” Through this lens, human-kind and its impact on the earth can be viewed as yet another natural force, creating and unleashing materials which are moved around the globe by the jet stream, ocean currents or even industrial systems heedless of how we might define a landscape as urban or rural, developed or undeveloped.