Petah Coyne

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Petah Coyne constructs large and small-scale hanging sculptures and floor installations from a deliberately incongruous vocabulary of materials: dead fish, mud, sticks, hair, black sand, patented wax formulations, velvet, taxidermy, and cast wax statuary. Her work oscillates between the organic and ephemeral, collapsing distinctions between the precious and the discarded. Operating across sculpture and photography, Coyne has developed a distinctive formal language in which material contradiction itself becomes the primary subject, resisting easy categorization or symbolic closure.

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