Making Kin in the Margins
Tracing the Crevice
Tracing the Crevice is a site-responsive installation that begins with an overlooked architectural detail: the narrow crevice in a brick wall. Aeri molds these negative spaces, enlarges them, and casts them in pewter using sand molds. The resulting forms—ambiguous, bodily, and textured—cling and spread across the structure like a living organism, resembling fungi, lichen, or a speculative species yet unnamed.
Installed within a marginal corner, the work reimagines architectural space as a site of relation, negotiation, and transformation. Through processes of material translation and shared agency, she approaches making as a dialogue rather than extraction. The installation invites viewers to attend to what persists at edges and to imagine forms of inhabitation shaped by care, memory, and more-than-human kinship.