CODEBREAKERS
The Codebreakers solve puzzles but also make them, piecing together their feelings and identities and leaving clues behind for others to find. Modular construction methods often anchor the analogy: the repetition of subsystems working together to become the primary visual component that makes a composition whole. For some, the meaning of their work is intentionally veiled by the final form an object takes. For others, embedded personal symbologies are only there for those who can see them. The readability of the works in this group can vary from transparent to opaque, like a code with varying levels of difficulty to crack.
Echoing the human urge to organize and better understand the world around us, the Codebreakers take a “more than the sum of its parts” approach to the extreme by building sorted but complex works, each with its own passcode. It is through the making of encrypted objects that the Codebreakers establish agency over their own “script,” increasing their sense of autonomy and defining what is worth carrying into the future. Through their practices, the Codebreakers process who they are, how they see the world, and how they want the world to see them. It is a temporal journey where the act of putting things together, piece by piece or stitch by stitch, may deliver a solution, resolution, or even a comprehensive reimagining.
Codebreakers include: Luam Melake, Trey Jones, Misha Kahn, Kim Mupangilaï, Cedric Mitchell, Richard Chavez, Jordan Nassar, steven KP, Coulter Fussell
