Holly Chang

To spoon, or not to spoon, that is the question.

Parameters of Spooning: In the Site of Possibility explores what it means when you’re a spoon, I’m a spoon, we’re all spoons.

What happens when we break?

When we are put back together?

What happens when we come out not fully formed?

Can we be reformed?

Reshaped?

Is renegotiation possible?

This exhibition explores the intersections of craft, identity, and self-discovery through the creation of spoons.

The real question is – what is even a spoon?

What is the purpose of a spoon?

What meaning can it hold?

Is its purpose to be both functional and beautiful or is there something greater within its creation and lifecycle?

The Parameters of Spooning taps into something hidden in the production of spoon creation which is process.

What is the process of spoon creation? Are spoons destitute to be made from only wood and metal, to live only in our drawers and taken out during mealtime or on display at grandma’s wall at her house?

The center of these questions is the connection between queering craft. How can we queer objects, more specifically spoons? The focus of this exhibition unravels the process of spoon creation as the artist continually pushes its form further and further into uselessness.

How can spoons be an extension of self? Of identity? The artist reimagines the purpose of spoons – transcending the traditional notions of functionality, failure, and possibility for a trans and queer futurity.

How can these forms be made and remade – formed and reformed?

How do we make space for these forms?