The Collection of the EoS 10^15 (2022)
“In Empire of Smoke, Glow concocts a not-so-distant future where an ultra wealthy family lives deep within a bunker built to survive the post-late stage capitalist world, a phenomenon that families like theirs brought into existence. The unsavory methods through which the family built their kingdom is reflected in the very objects they collect to decorate their own abode. For her site-responsive installation at SJAF, Glow expands The Collection of the EoS 10^15 to include jewelry, fragrance and garments belonging to the family's heiress. The objects simulate luxury through their appearance and visual language, and the collection feels uncannily at home on display at a church built in the early 20th century in the Romanesque Revival style. Catholic aesthetics are often drenched in sumptuous patterns and decorations, allowing Glow's works to eerily blend into a built environment that already carries the visual weight of wealth with its Renaissance Revival furniture, marble patterned walls, faux taxidermied bears, and heavy velvet curtains. In this space, Glow ties in the real with the imagined, a slippage that makes us uncomfortable in the beauty and opulence that The Collection of the EoS10^15 is so comfortably situated in.”
Excerpt from Sarah Cho’s essay Beatrice Glow: The Collection of the Eos 10^15. Read the full essay here.
“The artist draws on historical events and people to map out these extractive networks of trade, ones that clearly favor those who take, and not those who give, and have fortified over time through accumulated wealth and power.”
— Sarah Cho
Expl’odeur — Nutmeg, 2024, Glass, Brass, Scent
Experimenting with the metaphor of perfume, meaning 'through the smoke', has been a method to think with the sublime and terrifying qualities of polycrises. Thinking with perfume, smoke, fume, smog and miasma brings into view the interrelated histories of globalization on molecular, personal and planetary levels.
— Beatrice Glow
