Laura Moore’s sculptural practice has long explored the tensions between the monumental and the handheld, the disposable and the permanent, the interactive and the inert. In her newest series, Small Monuments, the artist has meticulously sculpted from soapstone multiple generations of computer mice. Invented in the 1960’s and designed to fit into the palm of our hands, the computer mouse as a navigational tool has become the essential link between our bodies and the digital world. Yet now, with the dawn of haptic and touchscreen technologies, it is becoming less ubiquitous. Small Monuments captures in stone an otherwise fleeting moment in the age of electronics when one device is replaced by another. By offering a moment of reflection on what is soon to pass, the series evokes the question – what comes next?

Exhibition Text written by Juliana Zalucky