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Ashes Withyman, precedentemente conosciuto come Gareth Moore, è nato a Matsqui, nella British Columbia, Canada, e attualmente vive a Stoccolma. Come artista sfida sistematicamente il rapporto tra l’accidentale e l’estetica. Per la creazione delle sue sculture effimere e complesse ha un approccio processuale e localizzato, prediligendo l’impiego di materiali di scarto e non ortodossi. Portando in superficie ciò che non è immediatamente visibile, osserva con sguardo sovversivo le abitudini quotidiane ed il sempre mutevole ambiente che ci circonda, come in Blocked Arch, Deferred Ceremony, Dawn Chorus, Tra-diddle da. Like a fly in slow suspense (2014). Le sue ricerche esplorano anche le proprietà fisiche e simboliche del suono in relazione agli esseri umani, gli animali e la scultura, come nel caso di Lady with Gull, Peanut butter steps, World Antacid (2017), o A Burning Bag as a Smoke-Grey Lotus (2015), una cerimonia quotidiana composta da sculture strumentali, o come per Bullae (2017), serie di live sonori. Il suo lavoro è stato presentato in Canada e su scala internazionale con mostre personali presso Salzburger Kunstverein, Catriona Jeffries a Vancouver, Stroom den Haag a L'Aia, La Criée - Centre d'art contemporain Rennes, La loge a Bruxelles, Glasgow International, CCA Wattis Institute a San Francisco, Witte de With a Rotterdam, e dOCUMENTA (13) Kassel. Ha partecipato a festival e mostre collettive tra cui Kunstverein Toronto; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Live Arts Week VI/Xing, ex GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'art contemporain; Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Ashes Withyman, formerly known as Gareth Moore, is a canadian visual artist born in Matsqui, British Columbia, currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. He consistently challenges the intersection between the accidental and the aesthetic. In his complex ephemeral sculptures, he applies a site-specific and process-orientated methodology, often using unorthodox or discarded materials. By inviting the audience to question what is around them and bringing the unnoticeable to the surface, he subversively examines the habits of daily life and the ever-changing environment that surrounds us, as in Lady with Gull, Peanut butter steps, World Antacid (2017), or Blocked Arch, Deferred Ceremony, Dawn Chorus, Tra-diddle da. Like a fly in slow suspense (2014). His ongoing investigations also explore the physical and symbolic properties of sound and its relationship to humans, animals and sculptural form, like in A Burning Bag as a Smoke-Grey Lotus (2015), a daily ceremony composed of instrumental sculptures, and Bullae (2017), a series of live sound events. His work has been shown internationally, including solo presentations at Salzburger Kunstverein, Catriona Jeffries Vancouver, Stroom den Haag, La loge Bruxelles, La Criée - Centre d'art contemporain Rennes, Glasgow International, the CCA Wattis Institute, Witte de With Rotterdam, and dOCUMENTA (13) Kassel. He has been included in numerous international group exhibitions, including at Kunstverein Toronto; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Live Arts Week VI by Xing, ex GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'art contemporain; Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.