ACCELERATOR
Samantha Fields
desires not even our own, 2019
desires not even our own by 2019 Accelerator Artist Samantha Fields looks at how our own disconnection to ourselves, our needs, and our wants affects the lives of others—specifically, the workers who labor in unfair and dangerous situations—and how our environment is being devastated through overuse of natural resources, pollution, and waste created from our over-production and over-purchasing.
With the performative and thoughtful processing and deconstructing of one ton of used clothing at the center of a unique “shop” situated in a local storefront, desires not even our own offered an in-depth look at the layered and interlocking problem of American consumer behavior and culture.
LOCATION
405 Centre Street, Hyde Square, Jamaica Plain
ACCELERATOR
Samantha Fields
Growing up in Brockton, MA, Samantha was the youngest member of a tempestuous lower-middle-class family. Drawn to the materials and processes that have historically lived outside of an “Art” context, she strives to make work that can live in and speak to the different worlds of 'high' and 'low.'
“I make—slowly—with/through craft. Making slowly is a personal act of resistance against the fast-paced, multi-tasking, product-driven world in which I find myself.”
As a multimedia artist, Samantha engages with these processes as a survival mechanism, aesthetic, and a conceptual strategy. Through these modes of making, she is able to explore different social constructs associated with the decorative: gender, class, professional/hobbyist, and the hierarchical categories of taste and morality.
Sam received her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and her undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art; and is currently adjunct faculty at both institutions.