PROJECTS > Reliquaries for Clinging and Letting Go (2020-2022)

I've Been Clogged with Doubt for Half a Year
I've Been Clogged with Doubt for Half a Year
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, chains from the artist’s mother’s stash, edible tins, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
I've Been Clogged with Doubt for Half a Year
I've Been Clogged with Doubt for Half a Year
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, chains from the artist’s mother’s stash, edible tins, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
The Unsatisfiable Desire for Completion
The Unsatisfiable Desire for Completion
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, deconstructed comfy pants, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
The Unsatisfiable Desire for Completion
The Unsatisfiable Desire for Completion
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, deconstructed comfy pants, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
The Unsatisfiable Desire for Completion
The Unsatisfiable Desire for Completion
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, deconstructed comfy pants, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
Despite Years of Trying, I Haven't Let Go
Despite Years of Trying, I Haven't Let Go
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, friendship pins, Ministeck tools, edible tins, burnt candle wicks, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
Despite Years of Trying, I Haven't Let Go
Despite Years of Trying, I Haven't Let Go
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, friendship pins, Ministeck tools, edible tins, burnt candle wicks, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
Despite Years of Trying, I Haven't Let Go
Despite Years of Trying, I Haven't Let Go
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, friendship pins, Ministeck tools, edible tins, burnt candle wicks, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
The Intertwining Pleasant and Unpleasant of Change
The Intertwining Pleasant and Unpleasant of Change
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, cat fur, thread remnants, broken jewelry, friendship pins, toilet paper tubes, cat claws, acupuncture needles, tablet with slideshow of lost masks, receipts, wax, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
The Intertwining Pleasant and Unpleasant of Change
The Intertwining Pleasant and Unpleasant of Change
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, cat fur, thread remnants, broken jewelry, friendship pins, toilet paper tubes, cat claws, acupuncture needles, tablet with slideshow of lost masks, receipts, wax, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
The Intertwining Pleasant and Unpleasant of Change
The Intertwining Pleasant and Unpleasant of Change
Thrifted objects, La Croix packaging, cat fur, thread remnants, broken jewelry, friendship pins, toilet paper tubes, cat claws, acupuncture needles, tablet with slideshow of lost masks, receipts, wax, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
Disengage the Relentless Urge to Improve Oneself
Disengage the Relentless Urge to Improve Oneself
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, broken jewelry
2021
Disengage the Relentless Urge to Improve Oneself
Disengage the Relentless Urge to Improve Oneself
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, broken jewelry
2021
Disengage the Relentless Urge to Improve Oneself
Disengage the Relentless Urge to Improve Oneself
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, broken jewelry
2021
An Unrealistic Plan to be Carefree
An Unrealistic Plan to be Carefree
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, broken jewelry
2021
An Unrealistic Plan to be Carefree
An Unrealistic Plan to be Carefree
Thrifted objects, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, broken jewelry
2021
An Unrealistic Plan to be Carefree
An Unrealistic Plan to be Carefree
Thrifted objects, cat fur, thread remnants, deconstructed comfy pants, toilet paper tubes, edible tins, deconstructed bathmats and the artist’s favorite cardigan, paint the color of the artist’s first car
2021
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Thrifted object, chains from the artist’s mother’s stash, dog waste bag tubes, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, tablet with slideshow of all the puzzles completed by the artist during 2020
2021
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Thrifted object, chains from the artist’s mother’s stash, dog waste bag tubes, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, tablet with slideshow of all the puzzles completed by the artist during 2020.
2021
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Thrifted object, chains from the artist’s mother’s stash, dog waste bag tubes, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, tablet with slideshow of all the puzzles completed by the artist during 2020.
2021
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Goalessness is Groundlessness
Thrifted object, chains from the artist’s mother’s stash, dog waste bag tubes, de-pilled knitwear, deconstructed comfy pants, tablet with slideshow of all the puzzles completed by the artist during 2020.
2021
Stay Right Where You Are
Stay Right Where You Are
(2020-2021)
Remix Video

In 2020—a chaotic year of tremendous anxiety—Stacia Yeapanis meticulously brushed her cats, de-pilled her knit jumpsuits and completed jigsaw puzzles while watching TV and drinking La Croix. She obsessively documented lost masks on the ground, escaped into thrift stores daily and nervously arranged and rearranged her stuff in a futile attempt to control the uncontrollable. When she laid her 25-year-old jeep to rest, she mixed a gallon of its unique color—some see blue, others see purple—to hold onto what was already passing away.

The wall-hung sculptures in Reliquaries for Clinging and Letting Go (2021), use the jeep’s unique color as a unifying property for sculptures that marry the visual languages of domestic decor and sacred objects. In ambivalent expressions of anxiety, ritual and habit, Stacia combines thrifted objects intended to display souvenir collections with the material byproducts of her everyday life during lockdown. Shrouds made of deconstructed clothing, ritualistic collections of material waste and garlands made of lovingly-brushed cat fur, thread remnants, consumer packaging, broken jewelry, and lint from de-pilled knitwear are opportunities to reflect on the THINGS we cling to in the face of impermanence and uncertainty.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a Zoom screening of Stay Right Where You Are (2020), a remix of clips from over 50 scripted television shows, which explores the multitude of emotional responses—both petty and profound—to life’s unexpected turns. The characters connect and argue across the boundaries of their shows, trying to cope with change and upheaval as the pandemic unfolds around them.